Clinical Lectures on Certain Diseases of the Nervous System - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1888. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... LECTURE II. ON ISOLATION IN THE TREATMENT OF HYSTERIA. Summary.--Retrospective details respecting a little epidemic of hysteria. The treatment ought to comprehend three points; A. Psychical or moral treatment, including: 1. Separation from the place where the hysteria developed; 2. Separation from each other of the persons affected; 3. Suppression of all visits on the part of parents or friends. B. Medical treatment: i. To modify the diathesis, if any exist (rheumatism, for instance); 2. Static electrization; 3. Methodical hydrotherapy. Preponderant influence of isolation. Example--The treatment has been adopted (not first proposed) in Germany and in England. Gentlemen:--Before returning to the principal subject of our present studies, I thought it would be of use to tell you something about those three children belonging to one family, whom I brought before you on the igth of last December. I have no intention of repeating the history of this little epidemic of hysteria, developed under the influence of the practice of spiritualism; all the details I have given you in my previous lecture. I shall call to your mind only certain particulars needful to refresh your memory as to the condition of these children at the time they were presented to the clinic, in order that you may be enabled to-day the better to judge of the modifications which have been effected m them under the influence of the measures we have adopted and of the treatment which we have instituted. The family, I may remind you, consists of three children--two boys and a girl. It is with the latter, aged 13^ years, that the affection began, August 28, 1884, as a sequel of a stance of spiritualism which was prolonged from 9 o'clock in the morning till 7 p. m., and in which Julie played the role of med...