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

  • Silas Weir Mitchell
Date:
1893
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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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    lessly. In some cases I have cured without fat- tening; in others, though rarely, the mental habits formed through years of illness have been too deeply ingrained for change, and I have seen the patient get up fat and well only to relapse on some slight occasion. The intense persistency with which some women study and dwell upon their symptoms is often the great difficulty. Even a slight physi- cal annoyance becomes for one of these unhap- pily-constituted natures a grave and almost in- eradicable trouble,-owing to the habit of self- study. Miss P., set. 29, weight one hundred and eleven pounds, height five feet four inches, dark-skinned, sallow, and covered with the acne of bromidism, consulted me last year. She had had one at- tack which was considered to have been epi- leptic, and which was probably hysterical, but on this matter she dwelt with incessant terror, which was fostered by the tender care of a near relative, who left her neither by night nor day. Vague neuralgic aches in the limbs, with con- stant weariness, asthenopia, anaemia, loss of ap- petite, and loss of flesh, followed. Then came spinal pain and irregular menstruation, a long
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