A treatise on emotional disorders of the sympathetic system of nerves / by William Murray.
- Murray, William, petitioner
- Date:
- 1866
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on emotional disorders of the sympathetic system of nerves / by William Murray. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![conditio]! of tliese parts, may become developed, with tlie usual symptom.s indicative of tliese conditions, wMcli are to be fully described in Section II. The disordered conditions of the sympathetic system not only induce a disordered action in the various viscera, by which the nutrition of the system is interfered with, but there is also more or less inter- ference with the action of more remote parts. The im- paired functions of the cerebro-spinal system, and the failure of the general nutrition of the body, are both instances of this. The mind becomes less able to bear up against anxiety, the patient becomes jaded, unable to work at his usual business, and the memory and other mental faculties in time become diseased. Attention to objects of interest and duty become difficult, the mind grows confused, and the whole system becomes weak and depressed—a ready victim to any evil which may arise, because of having lost its resisting power and reserve strength. [See Paper by Dr. Myrtle on Jaded Brains, Transactions Northumberland and Durham Medical Society, 1864.] Such is a slight sketch of the manner in which the mind and body may become affected by emotion acting through the sympathetic system upon the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21068719_0051.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
