Works on phrenology, physiology, and kindred subjects / by O.S. Fowler.

  • Orson S. Fowler
Date:
[1877?]
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    hysteria. In some part, of the world “founl Sta co, hysteria or hysterics, essen tally thati aa a general fact, very prevalent. It is to be kindred stimulants, tea, those person, who use tobacco, use also theof which and coffee, one or both of them *o thaUtoej ^ ^ , may cause that disease, pr 1 1 ,eat jnsu]t, should any know a pious old lady, who wou Christian ’ She uses not only one question her title to being » and night, but strong tea daily, as often at 1ast as mor ^ ^ ^ , she smokes her pipe even much often • weeks ghe has had for many years hyst«*» so badly ha. every desth. gets the notion into her head tot s^ eaMhejJnPh ^ ^ ^ She calls her friends about her to a & wQrth daughter of most solemn manner. At one o , misleading her, said, hers, who well understood how the devil wa she much ‘ Come, mother, let us go over to Mrs , a ne g ? ^ loved ;‘it will be more pleasant for youto ^ th“^ it_ she « ±rz t -5 rte°fs‘„hreeSonf g£Sf S’ these old Christians’; but certain it is, ss&sr- exercise, etc., is the means. ntd .w are cured. Once cured, ‘ Hysterical persons should not marry until y f ob8tacies in the the sooner married the be^er, Pr°vi * not only miserable them, u,e 0,‘0bac'<, ’ffc “h&ndon Psf et »HP. S«ts»la.d OaptSW, about midway bet'.eeuE.gUnd a^hejjmted States,^ was called up one night, having pas=c P, \ <■, IT is sleeping place that oao of the passengers a foreigner had y er bad « H»sleep »g P» waaone of confined air. I at once or,lered h,to b.token an ^^ mattrass in the cool fresh air on dec^ once t0 take, instead of the account for his attack at the time. I conehided at once, xo xu , • affusion, the “bder and then more conv^tent mode of gw^n^coldinjecUOTa About two quarts of water (fresh), all that couia 1 o t told by SS2 anJm two^orX^e days more the patient had another, and another attack At leno-th he had one much worse than the rest—a genuine hysterica (for men as well as women, sometimes have these symptoms). Soon it was diffiralt to keep him at all within bounds ; so I had him manned, as the sailors term it? A number of them took him upon deck, while others drew a half dozen buckets of water and placed alongside. I threw them one by one quickly over him, he having only a night dress and drawers upon him. l hc buckets of water dashed upon him brought him quickly to a better state. Ho was then wrapped in blankets (it being late in the evening) his wet dress an- swering as a wet sheet. In this way he was left until morning. He had no more attacks after this. The old remedy, the dash, or allusion, with cold wa- ter, is incomparably the best that can be used for hysterics, whether in cases of men or of women.’—Watkr cure journal, Pel'., 3 8-17.