Migraine and other common neuroses : a psychological study / by F.G. Crookshank.
- Francis Graham Crookshank
- Date:
- 1926
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Migraine and other common neuroses : a psychological study / by F.G. Crookshank. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![neglecting the physical, we attach primary importance to the psychical aspect of the illness. Amongst the patients labelled cases of organic disease, we find the irascible man with aortic disease, the anxious man with a fatty myocardium, the hopeful youth with phthisis, and the hypochondriac with abdominal disease. At the other end of the scale, amongst the mentals/’ we see the sweating, incontinent and mydriatic maniac with a full bounding pulse, and the desiccated, constipated, and my¬ otic melancholic, with a slow, small, pulse. But, in the central group, we find those “ functionals ’’ who are the despair of the doctor and the joy^ of the charlatan—those who are cured hy New Thought, Christian Science or Evangelical Conversion :—the migrain¬ ous with astigmatism : the vertiginous with middle ear catarrh : the asth¬ matic with no pulmonary or cardiac lesion : the hysterical dyspareunic with a misplaced uterus : the irritable and unstable old-young man with a big [ 12]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29813256_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
