Includes a repertory and a very useful index.The book is in lecture form.Contains a complete materia medica of all the cardiac remedies.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ... LECTURE XVII. THE TREATMENT OF OBSTINATE CASES OP NERVOUS EXHAUSTION AND HYSTERIA BY SECLUSION, REST, MASSAGE, ELECTRICITY, AND FULL FEEDING. The lessons I have here gathered together would be incomplete, were I not to add some more detailed statement of my views as to the general treatment of the conditions out of which arise the varied phenomena of hysteria. Nothing, I think, can be more melancholy than an honest survey of the amount of good done in hysteria by the host of drugs which go to form the so-called therapeutics of this disease. In disorders where time is valuable we may find a happy resource in the famous class of antispasmodics, but as a rule they are swiftly disappearing from the apothecary's prescription files, and the physician of our day who is called upon to treat hysteria, or general nervousness or neurasthenia, wisely contents himself with a careful estimate of causes, and an effort to deal with these by patient treatment Perhaps no cases are more common in general practice, none more annoying, and none more dreaded than those of hysteria, in its infinite number of forms and its infinite variety of masquerade. The lighter troubles, the spasms, rigors, nervousness, and curious mental states, which haunt the times of sexual changes in a woman's life, and especially her passage into womanhood, are more or less easily dealt with. A careful study of the girl's character, of her home surroundings, of the incidents ot social life, which come with the development of possible passion, will be the best guide to treatment, and with the obvious indications given us by distinct physical ailments, local or general, constitute our chief resources. But besides these every-day manifestations of hysteria, we meet in practice with a...

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