Hysteria : remote causes of disease in general; treatment of disease by tonic agency; local or surgical forms of hysteria, etc. : six lectures delivered to the students of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1866 / by F.C. Skey.

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1867
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Credit: Hysteria : remote causes of disease in general; treatment of disease by tonic agency; local or surgical forms of hysteria, etc. : six lectures delivered to the students of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1866 / by F.C. Skey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    LECTURE IV. PAGE Symptoms of common paroxysmal Hysteria—Constitutional liability—Nerve and nervous system—Effect of railway ac- cidents—Influence of the mind—Effects of an unstrung- nervous system on the actions of daily life—Imitative or contagious Hysteria—Surgical cases of—Distinct from Neu- ralgia—Relation between Hysteria and the brain or spinal cord—Hysteria combined with real disease . . . .53 LECTURE V. Distinctions between nervous and vascular diseases recapitu- lated—General localities of Hysteria— Case of Hysteria of the muscles of the larynx—Hysteric affection of the mam- mary gland—Value of exercise—Relative value of foot and horse exercise—General and local treatment—Hysteria of hypochondriac regions—Spinal affections—Cases—Efficacy or inefficacy of issues—Cases—Railway actions and extor- tions—Cases—Hysteric joints, treatment of—Cases . . G8 LECTURE VI. Hysteric affection of the OEsophagus—Hysteric affection of the stomach ;—gastrodynia—of the Ovary—Hysteric contrac- tion of muscles—Wry neck—Contraction of fingers—Con- traction of elbow-joint—Hysteric contraction of the muscles of the leg and foot—Hysteric paraplegia—Hemiplegia . 89