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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![mobile kidneys, and the like. Our sexual neurotics have small, or mis¬ placed uteri; varicoceles, phimoses, pendent scrotums and so on. Our spinal neurasthenics, as well as many others, have rudimentary spinae bihdae, and a tendency to pes cavus and hammer toe—because the terminal spine is imperfectly developed. Nay : even our rheumatoid and arthritic patients, often enough, have digits and limbs with which there is something wrong from the point of view of the sculptor, just as do many insane patients exhibit the most extraordinary skin peculiarities—strong evidence that the part of the epiblast from which the neural tissues are formed is not what it should be. All this comprises the study of organ inferiorities, as it is called—our philosopher has chosen a jerry-built house—and the organ in¬ feriorities we notice in the neurotic are either in connection with the organs working badly—as when we see the small penis and long prepuce of the boy who wets his bed—or afford [35]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29813256_0041.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
