Methods of cure, in some particular cases of insanity: the epilepsy, hypochondriacal affection, hysteric passion, and nervous disorders / [William Perfect].

  • William Perfect
Date:
[1778]
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Credit: Methods of cure, in some particular cases of insanity: the epilepsy, hypochondriacal affection, hysteric passion, and nervous disorders / [William Perfect]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ”7 ] increafing the dofe. guttatim; till^ at length, Ihe could take eighteen or twenty of them, without experiencing the ill elFefls vehich had before refulted from the exhibition of the fame medicine. By a continuance of thefe means only, in the beginning of June following, I had the fatisfaftion to find the fpafms appeafed, and her nights uninterrupted; the ftomach was invigorated, the digef- don amended, the pulfe cooled, and lowered to a natural uniformity of mo- « tion; her fpirits were relieved, the fwimming in her head was removed; and file has fince enjoyed as good a ftate of health as flie had ever done before, or proba.bIy ever can expedt to do, with one, whofe nervous frame is naturally fo fenfible delicate and irritable. I::? IT