A treatise on hysteria / by George Tate.

  • Tate, George
Date:
1830
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Credit: A treatise on hysteria / by George Tate. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    such knowledge, no man can be safely armed with confidence in his measures, or with patience to follow one course, perseveringly, for any useful length of time: and it is for want of this know- ledge that young practitioners are daily inflicting irreparable mischief upon their patients, by the adoption of wild, furious, and unsuitable measures, which are only calculated to break up their health and to poison the future enjoyment of their lives. It would be an unprofitable waste of the reader’s time to enter here into a history of the barbarous notions which the old physicians entertained of Hy- steria. These are now obsolete, or nearly so; and but for the circumstance that thousands must have suffered martyrdom under their treatment, might afford some diversion, but would be otherwise use- less. Every filthy and disgusting odour, every abominable drug that the surface or bowels of the earth afforded, was unsparingly used for its cure. But leaving this part of the subject to be pursued by those who venerate antiquity, right or wrong, for antiquity’s sake,—I proceed at once to the state- ment of my own views, and of the grounds upon which they have been formed.
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