On the relation between therapeutics and pathology : with especial reference to some forms of cardiac, renal, and nervous diseases : a course of lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in the spring of 1853 / by George Johnson.

  • George Johnson
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1853
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Credit: On the relation between therapeutics and pathology : with especial reference to some forms of cardiac, renal, and nervous diseases : a course of lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in the spring of 1853 / by George Johnson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LECTURE IV. PAGE Some gf the most frequent consequences of over-work, anxiety, and terror—Loss of sleep—Terrific dreams, &c., &c.— Various functional disturbances of the thoracic and abdo- minal organs—Epilepsy ; various remote causes of the disease —Different forms of bodily disease which may give rise to epilepsy—Epilepsy from mental causes : 1st, From a sudden shock of terror or violent grief . . . 57—74 LECTURE V. 2nd.—Epilepsy excited by mental anxiety, and preceded for a variable period by warning symptoms—The prognosis, in cases of epilepsy, depends greatly upon the nature of the remote cause of the disease—Remarks on the proximate cause and pathology of epilepsy—Other consequences of over-work, grief, and anxiety—Delirium—Mania—Some forms of general and local palsy—Chorea—Hysteria . . . 75—94 LECTURE VI. General observations on the doctrine of predisposition and here- ditary tendency to disease—Indications for the prevention and cure of the various forms of nervous disease before described —To discover and avoid the causes of disease—To procure refreshing sleep—Opium ; its use and abuse—Substitutes for opium—Alcoholic stimulants; their use and abuse—The great prevalence of insanity among the working classes— The probable causes of this, and the means of prevention . 95—113
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