Volume 1

A textbook of medicine / begun by the late Charles Hilton Fagge ... ; completed after his death and since revised or re-written by Philip Henry Pye-Smith.

  • Charles Hilton Fagge
Date:
1901-1902
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Credit: A textbook of medicine / begun by the late Charles Hilton Fagge ... ; completed after his death and since revised or re-written by Philip Henry Pye-Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    PAGES EPILEPSY WITH OTHER PAROXYSMAL NEUROSES Definition of Epilepsy—E. major—aura—fit—E. minor—Status epilepticus —Sequelae—Pathology, seat, and physiology—iEtiology—Relation to other forms of Eclampsia—Diagnosis—Prognosis—Treatment during the fit and in the intervals. Paroxysmal vertigo—Auditory vertigo and Meniere’s disease—Paroxysmal mania ....... 913—937 THERMIC AND TOXIC NEUROSES Heat-stroke—Origin and pathology—Symptoms of the cardiac and cerebro- spinal forms—Prognosis—Sequelae — Pathology—Diagnosis —Treatment. Alcoholic Neuroses—Delirium tremens—its symptoms and course— prognosis and treatment—Chronic alcoholic poisoning—its symptoms and course—antecedents—diagnosis and treatment. Narcotic Neuroses—Opium-eating—The morphia habit—Symptoms and results—Treatment—Neuroses due to other narcotic drugs. Neuroses from Plumbism—from Arsenic—from Mercury—from Zinc 938—954 HYSTERIA AND HYPOCHONDRIASIS Hysteria—Nomenclature—A real and distinct disease—Mental and moral perversions—Hysterical affections of sensation and of movement—Con- tractures—Globus hystericus—Flatulence—The hysterical fit—.Etiology and Pathology of Hysteria—Diagnosis—Prognosis—Prophylaxis—Treat- ment. Catalepsy—Trance—Sleep-walking—Ecstasy—Dancing mania—Hysterical mania—Epileptiform hysteria—Anorexia nervosa—Male hysteria. Hypochondriasis—Distinctions from hysteria—The supposition of ima- ginary diseases—Distinction from melancholia—May mask real disease Treatment—Prognosis . 955 MENTAL DISORDERS (by Dr Savage) Insanity as (1) the expression of disease of the brain; (2) an expression bv the nervous system of bodily disease; (3) disorder of functions of brain—Classification—Causation. Acute delirious mania—Acute and other forms of ordinary Mania—Melan- cholia with bodily complaints (Hypochondriasis); with mental com- plaints (true Melancholia) — Stupor, active and passive — Delusional Insanity—Hallucinations of the senses—States of mental weakness—by defect—by instability—Specially named varieties of insanity: puerperal, alcoholic, moral, syphilitic, gouty, plumbic, febrile, phthisical, asthmatic, cardiac, renal and diabetic—Epileptic insanity—Paralytic and tabic insanity Testamentary capacity—Certificates and other medico-legal points. Idiocy and imbecility . • • • .919- CRETINISM AND MYXCEDEMA Cretinism as an endemic form of idiocy—Its anatomy—Endemic broncho- ce]e—Sporadic cretinism in England—Relation of goitre to cretinism The cretinoid condition in adults (Myxoedema)—The condition which