The work and the counterwork, or, The religious revival in Belfast : with an explanation of the physical phenomena / by Edward A. Stopford.
- Stopford, Edward Adderley, 1809-1894.
- Date:
- 1859
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The work and the counterwork, or, The religious revival in Belfast : with an explanation of the physical phenomena / by Edward A. Stopford. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![I cannot account for falling into such an error (save by the haste with which I had to perform so anxious a task); for 1 had been better taught. I have cor- rected myself in this Edition by not attempting to say what nerves are affected. It is enough for us to know that the nerves which give natural expression to emotional feeling are unnaturally deranged in their action in hysteria. This apology applies also to an alteration made in the first paragraph of page 44. I have received a communication from an eminent physician and kind friend, which I feel bound to give, on the following passage in page 20 :—“ All the cases I saw in Belfast were clearly and unmistakably hys- terical ; and, as far as it is possible [for me] to judge from description, so was every case which has been described to me.” I think it is on this that my able friend has ob- served, “ I wish also to say that I am not quite satis- fied in my own mind that all* the cases of bodily affection properly belong to the class hysteria or catalepsy. They are undoubtedly instances of disease, and probably of some nervous disease ; but the descrip- tion differs so widely from the ordinary forms of hys- teria, and the persons in whom the seizures have occurred have so little of the hysterical diathesis, that at present I am forced to look upon them as some- thing different.” Here I wish to explain that it never was my intention to be guilty of the presumption of saying](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22371163_0102.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
