Clinical lectures on certain diseases of the nervous system / by J.M. Charcot ; translated by E.P. Hurd.

  • Hurd E. P. (Edward Payson), 1838-1899.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Clinical lectures on certain diseases of the nervous system / by J.M. Charcot ; translated by E.P. Hurd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    '5 — besought us to interfere, and that we proposed to take their children into our service, to which they con- sented, I. The proposition which I made to the parents, itself, contained a series of therapeutic considerations which I must now set forth. Admission to the hospi- tal enabled me to effect: The removal of the patients from the place where their disease first declared itself; The absence of the father and mother, who had themselves become very nervous, and whose presence would, necessarily, according to my long and invaria- ble experience on this point, prevent any effective treatment; The respective separation of the three children. The girl, in fact, was placed in one of the female wards of our clinical department. The two boys were put in the only male ward which we possessed at that time. The respective isolation of the three patients was not, then, altogether complete; we had, however, done the best we could to keep them apart. Such, in my mind, should be the fundamental conditions of treatment: the parents consented no longer to see the children but with my permission, and I deemed my- self warranted in assuring them that, in all probabil- ity, in a few months we should be able to send home their children completely restored to health. Such was the moral or psychical side of the treat- ment proposed; we reckoned, of course, on carrying