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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    adopting the image of the most terrific maladies,— and are scarcely ever seen in two cases precisely alike. The cases to be afterwards adduced, will, I think, prove, conclusively, that defective men- struation is solely accountable for all these ma- nifestations, whatever may have occasioned that function to be deranged. I assume this, because, in the first place, Hysteria is not confined to women of a delicate texture, but sometimes attacks the most hardy and the most healthy; and, secondly, because a suppressed or disordered uterine secre- tion is always the forerunner of it, in whatever shape it presents itself. I shall describe many cases as Hysteria to which other writers would have applied different names ; but looking at their common origin, and at the organs which are principally concerned in their production, I have, for simplicity’s sake, avoided all other names, and class all its varieties under one common term; as I am satisfied there is no other distinction between them than such as pro- ceeds from their different degrees of violence; and as the word “ Hysteria” expresses the intrinsic nature of the disorder, it is a more fitting term than any other, and less likely to lead to confusion
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