Electro-therapeutics of neurasthenia / by W.F. Robinson.

  • Robinson W. F.
Date:
1893
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Credit: Electro-therapeutics of neurasthenia / by W.F. Robinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Another vacation of a month may now be permit- ted, and then the treatments resumed, but only given twice a week. The case is now convalescent and has probably received all the benefit that medical science can give her. She may be looked upon as cured, in any rea- sonable acceptation of the term. Her mind has be- come fairly strong, also her will-power. The dis- tressing pains in her back and down her legs do not bother her any more, except when she does too much. Her head is free from the bad feelings which used to torment her so; and best of all, she is out of the terri- ble condition of despondency in which she was plunged, and things appear to her in their normal light. I have used the expression “ reasonable ” in rela- tion to the cure, for it must not be supposed that the disease is completely eradicated in the sense that an attack of pneumonia is, after recovery. Persons pos- sessed of the neuropathic temperament are always very prone to suffer with nervous prostration, and the fact of having had one attack strongly predisposes.to the occurrence of others. Before discharging our patient we should explain these things to her, and warn her against the dangers of overwork and overstrain. If she find at any time that her old symptoms are coming back, she should immediately return and take a short course of treat- ment, which will very likely have the result of avert- ing another attack. 5 LLL