Atlas and epitome of diseases caused by accidents / by Dr. Ed. Golebiewski ... authorized translation from the German, with editorial notes and additions by Pearce Bailey ... 40 colored plates, and 143 illustrations in black.

  • Golebiewski, Ed. (Eduard)
Date:
1900
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    the neurologist for an exj)]anation of the ]x'culiar disorder.s of recent date, known as the traumatic neuroses, which so frequently result from the combined influence of })]iysical injury and nervous shock. It must not be forgotten that the relationship between traumatisms and disorders that are not inmiediately surgi- cal is often very obscure and difficult of demonstration. In many cases the relationshij) is incontestable, though how it is brought about is uncertain ; in others it can hardly be said, from our present knowledge, to be more than probable. This is especially the case wdien there is a long time-interval between the receipt of the injury and the first appearance of symptoms. Diagnosis in traumatic cases means much more than a simple recognition of the particular injury or disease that has an accident as its starting-point. It means the type of man affected by it quite as much as the injury itself, for what in one individual would be little more than an inconveni- ence would in another be a cause of death. Diagnosis, therefore, implies an estimation of the resistance of the individual quite as much as of the extent of immediate injury ; and the ability to estimate resistance implies not only a knowledge of general physiology, but also a famil- iarity with the social, familiary, and personal conditions that favor or discourage the processes of recuperation and rej)air. It is the ])hysician who considers the problem l)efore him from this point of view who will most often find his prognosis verified by subsequent events. The question of simulation naturally comes up under diagnosis. It is one with which the surgeon has little to do. A man can not simidate a l)roken leg, and self- inflicted disfigurements and mutilations, while occasionally heard of in armies and prisons, are rarely, if ever, at- tempted in personal injury claims. In the obscurer internal diseases, and es]iecially in those afl^ecting the ner- vous system, simulation may be, and sometimes is, suc- cessfully carried out; but even in nervous diseases the
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