Psychiatric-neurologic examination methods : with special reference to the significance of signs and symptoms / by August Wimmer ; authorized translation by Andrew W. Hoisholt.

  • August Wimmer
Date:
1919
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Credit: Psychiatric-neurologic examination methods : with special reference to the significance of signs and symptoms / by August Wimmer ; authorized translation by Andrew W. Hoisholt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    concomitant climacteric symptoms. Facts relating to pregnancies, births, puerperal periods, etc., are to be care¬ fully ascertained as well as facts concerning miscarriages, stillborn children, the number of living and deceased children, and the state of health and cause of death of the children. 5. Diseases during the early part of life of the patient, exclusive of psychoses. During childhood: Rachitis, in¬ fections diseases (fever delirium), trauma of the head, and brain diseases (meningitis—infantile paralysis), infantile convulsions (age, frequency of attacks), chorea, periodic headaches, disturbances of sleep, (insomnia, pavor nocturnus, somnambulism), enuresis—occurrence day or night, continuous, in series, episodic. In later years: In¬ fectious diseases, (typhoid, influenza, tuberculosis, etc.), heart and kidney disease (uremia), metabolic diseases (diabetes, rheumatism, anemias, Basedow’s disease, etc.), painful nervous diseases (neuralgias, tabes), serious sur¬ gical injuries and operations, chronic malnutrition, over- exertion, loss of sleep, etc. In cases of women one should inquire concerning puerperal fever, puerperal eclampsia, protracted lactations, prolonged uterine hemorrhages, genital diseases, etc. Careful inquiry should be made con¬ cerning convulsive attacks (p. 116), paralyses (p. 122), speech disturbances (p. 106). Chronic alcoholism: When did alcoholic abuse begin? Was it steady or periodic [Dipsomania: Imperative, frequently with marked mental depression (dysphoria) when alone, to excess] ? The extent of the abuse and the kind of liquor used? The possibility of an abnormal alcohol reaction (atypical alcoholic intoxication by rela¬ tively small consumption of alcohol with quick develop¬ ment of an extreme degree of intoxication or a dream state, p. 52). Attacks of furor, etc., are seen in psycho-