A treatise on the nervous diseases of women ; comprising an inquiry into the nature, causes, and treatment of spinal and hysterical disorders / By Thomas Laycock, M.D.

  • Thomas Laycock
Date:
1840
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Credit: A treatise on the nervous diseases of women ; comprising an inquiry into the nature, causes, and treatment of spinal and hysterical disorders / By Thomas Laycock, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Trance 317 Apparent Death ;—^illustrations—diagnosis 317 Delirium, Ecstasy;—causes and nature—analogous to dreams— varietiesof, in hysteria . 318 Spectral Illusions ;■—analogous to delirium—causes—periodic laws governing them—colour;—other sensorial illusions—illustra- tions 320 Somnambulism ;—nature—periodic—state of the brain and nerves in—illustrations 322 Clairvoyance, Second Sight;—relations to other diseases—knowing the hour without time-piece not wonderful 323 Treatment of Paroxysmal Diseases 324 CHAPTER VIL—Affection of the Sensitive Nerves. Introductory remarks—tactile sense has a special apparatus 326 Section I.—The Neuralgia 327 NeuralgicB from Disease of a Nerve 327 Articular NeuralgicB ;—dreadful errors respecting them—'description —cases from Sir C. Bell—diagnosis 327 Spinal NeuralgicB; spots most affected—analogous to articular neu- ralgias—common in other diseases besides hysteria—causes— by Brown, Teale, Griffin, Billing—unmeaning phrases—can the spinal cord be compressed by the hand 1—is spina] tender- ness of any value as a diagnostic sign, and of what ?—varied action of counter-irritants on the spine explained . 329-332 Sternal Tenderness ;—case—confirms Weber's experiments 332 Costal NeuralgicB 333 Pain in the Left Side ;—seat 333 Abdominal Tenderness ;■—-diagnosis 334 Neuralgia of the Rectum and Anus 334 Neuralgia of the Head and Face 334 Clavus Hystericus 335 Hemicrania 335 Treatment of Hysteric NeuralgicB 335 Necessity of ascertaining the cause—of exercise—remedies recom- mended—topical remedies—endermic medication—pressure on the nerve—the use of the magnet—dry cupping—Sir B. Brodie's plan—danger of much counter-irritation over joints;— counter-irritants of the mind 335-338 Section II.—Morbid Sensibility of the Senses 338 Of the Touch;—reading by the touch^—recognition of indi- viduals and of coloius by it—^illustrations—by women with nervous disease—by the blind—Caspar Hauser's perceptive powers 338-34Q