Migraine and other common neuroses : a psychological study / by F.G. Crookshank.

  • Francis Graham Crookshank
Date:
1926
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Credit: Migraine and other common neuroses : a psychological study / by F.G. Crookshank. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    by asymmetrical play of facial muscles, by deviation of the nasal septum, by lack of balance between ocular muscles and, sometimes, by dental irregularities and the like. Slight degrees of hyper- metropia or of myopia, associated with astigmatism, or with imbalance, are nearly always present and, as a rule, the error of refraction is itself asym¬ metrical . Ihe importance of this “ organ- inferiority ” is very great. Let us remember how, during the War, those who under strain and stress became functionally blind, deaf, or dumb, were always found amongst those who, before the time of shock, had displayed either congenital or acquired “ inferi¬ ority ” in respect of the organs of sight, of hearing, or of speech, respectively. The relation of this organ-inferiority to the actual paroxysm is threefold. The defect, as in the case of imbalance, may be an actual cause of cerebral exhaustion, by reason of the efforts made to overcome the resulting dis- abilitv. Or, as in the case of an [75]
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