Observations on the nature, causes, and cure, of those disorders, which have been commonly called nervous, hypochondriac, or hysteric. To which are prefixed, some remarks on the sympathy of the nerves / By Robert Whytt.

  • Robert Whytt
Date:
M,DCC,LXVII
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Credit: Observations on the nature, causes, and cure, of those disorders, which have been commonly called nervous, hypochondriac, or hysteric. To which are prefixed, some remarks on the sympathy of the nerves / By Robert Whytt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    {a) A lady, aged about 20, on the fourth day after being delivered of her firft child, began to be feverifh, and could not lleep. After this die became very delirious, talked conftantly, had fometimes tremors, and was fo redlefs, that for two days die had not lain one minute in the fame pofture, and was with difficulty kept in bed by two or three nurfes. On the loth day after her delivery, when I firft fawher, the fymptoms now mentioned were all increafed ; die was now quite filent, and feemed to underftand nothing that was faid to her; her pulfe, which was but of a moderate ftrength, beat above 150 times in a minute. Nay once, when die was more agitated than ufual, it rofe to 180 ftrokes in that time, and became withal very fmall. As die had been blood¬ ed and bliftered, and ufed feveral other re¬ medies without advantage, I ordered her feet and legs to be put immediately into the warm pediluvium, which was done by making her fit up on the bed-fide. At firft, jt required two people to keep her feet in K k k the