Fat and blood : an essay on the treatment of certain forms of neurasthenia and hysteria / by S. Weir Mitchell.

  • Silas Weir Mitchell
Date:
1885
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Credit: Fat and blood : an essay on the treatment of certain forms of neurasthenia and hysteria / by S. Weir Mitchell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    taken, in divided doses, in twenty-four hours; on the 17th, fifty ounces of milk; on the 18th, the same quantity of milk repeated; massage for half an hour; on the 19th, milk as before; bread-and-butter and Qgg] massage for an hour and a half; twenty minims of dialyzed iron twice daily; on the 21st, a mutton-chop in addition to the above; massage an hour and fifty minutes. To-day she passed water for the first time for four years, and the catheter was never again used. Chloral discontinued, and she slept natu- rally all night long. On the 23d, porridge and a gill of cream were added to her former diet; mas- sage three hours daily, and electricity for half an hour, and this was continued until the end of the treatment. Mai tine was now given twice daily. October 30.—She is now consuming three full meals daily of fish, meat, vegetables, cream, and fruit, besides two quarts of milk and two glasses of burgundy. Considerable muscular powder is returning in her limbs, which she can now move freely in bed. November 6.—Sat in a chair for an hour. The massage and electricity are being gradually discontinued, and the amount of food lessened. November 17.—Walked down-stairs, and went
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