Clinical lectures on neurasthenia / by Thomas Dixon Savill.

  • Thomas Dixon Savill
Date:
1908
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    INTRODUCTORY THE PATHOLOGY OF FUNCTIONAL DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM (An inaugural address delivered at the installation of the Post- graduation Clinique at the Paddington Infirmary October, 1891.) Summary :—Clinical teaching and research in a Poor-Law In- firmary initiated.—Description of the Infirmary.—Extent of field and other advantages.—Special opportunities for studying nervous and mental disorders.—Methods of investigating the pathology of diseases of the nervous system.—Clinical investi- gation.—Pathology of “ functional ” diseases of the nervous system.—Undiscovered structural alterations.—Hetero-toxic and auto-toxic changes.—Malnutrition.—Vascular changes and vaso-motor neuroses.—Increased reflex irritability.—Compound causes.—Resemblances of functional to structural diseases ; pathology of hysteria. Gentlemen,—In addressing you at the commence- ment of the Post-graduation Clinique now organised for the first time within the walls of a Poor-Law Infirmary, it is desirable I should say a few words explanatory of this new departure^ 1 A visiting surgeon, the late Sir Henry Thomson, was appointed to the Marylebone Workhouse about the middle of the century, but the date of this lecture (May, 1891) was the first occasion on which Workhouse Infirmaries had ever been rendered available for organised clinical and pathological instruction. It was always thought that