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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    attended with high heat of the whole surface of the body. Upon inquiry, I found that she had not menstruated for fourteen weeks, and for more than twelve months very inadequately to her former habits ; and had complained of pain in her left side, with occasional palpitations. These circumstances shed some light upon the rather puzzling appearances of the case, and went a great way to determine its real source and character. I then had her turned round, to get an examination of the spinal column. On making pressure upon the four uppermost dorsal vertebree, she complained of great tenderness, and pain ; which was referred to the left side, and to the scrobiculus cordis. As I had always found these, or some other divisions of the spine, tender, on the application of pressure, in urgent cases of Hysteria, I was quite satisfied that this was nothing more than a mysterious case of that description. ‘The fugitive nature of the apparent ophthalmia, the seat and kind of pain in the left side, the pain in the dorsal vertebrze, with a suspended menstruation ; all con- curred in giving it this and no other character. Although not expecting much benefit from it, at the solicitation of friends, she was again bled, with scarcely any relief. The treatment which I chiefly
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