A treatise on hysteria and epilepsy : with some concluding observations on epileptic insomnia / by J. Leonard Corning.
- James Leonard Corning
- Date:
- 1888
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on hysteria and epilepsy : with some concluding observations on epileptic insomnia / by J. Leonard Corning. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.
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![shoe nails, one pin, one needle. Several pieces of glass, and the pins and needles first removed, were un- fortunately mislaid and lost. Including these, the whole number of objects removed amounted to one hundred and fifty. * * * The longest splinter was nearly six inches long. * * * Strange as it seems, she apparently experienced acute erotic pleasure from the probings which she was subjected to. * * * u gj^g ^^g ]^qq^ ^ery hys- terical, having frequent attacks of choking, globus hystericus, and imagined at one time that she had a spool in her throat, and could only swallow through the hole in the middle. This case is certainly unique, as regards the character and extent of self-mutilation practised. Dr. Channing also cites the case reported by Dr. Robie,* of the Dundee Asylum, in which an hysteri- cal woman swallowed a circular tea-cady, one and one-fourth inches in diameter, with suicidal intent. Dr. J. B. Andrews, of the Utica Asylum, has re- ported a most interesting case, in which he removed three hundred needles from the body of a female pa- tient. The needles had all been inserted before she became a patient in the asylum. The patient was hysterical, and bore a strong resemblance, in some re- spects, to the case of Mrs. Miller, f • Soon after the introduction of anaesthetics, an *Journal of Mental Science for July, 1875. fJournal of Insanity for July, 1872; quoted bv Channing.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2122545x_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
