On the Curability of Certain Forms of Insanity, Epilepsy, Catalepsy, and Hysteria in Females

As epilepsy is a much graver disease than hysteria, so is the sequel of the former—dementia or idiotcy—much more permanent and difficult to be removed by treatment than insanity...

It may, perhaps, be necessary before relating cases which I have treated, suffering from hysteria, to state briefly what I understand by this term. The word Hysteria was doubtle...

Referring my readers for full information on the pathology and history of epilepsy to Dr. Russell Reynolds’s exhaustive treatise on the subject already referred to, I would ment...

As the title of this book implies, I do not intend to occupy the attention of my readers with all the numerous varieties of insanity and other nervous disorders to which females...

There are perhaps few terms so difficult to define as spinal irritation, for the gradations from hysteria to this state are extremely easy; and, indeed, it will have been seen t...

This affection is extremely rare, and I consider myself favoured in Having witnessed three well-marked cases. “It occurs chiefly,” says Dr. Jones, “in those who have weakly and...

In the chapter on hysteria, cases have been recorded of frequent faintings, without spasms, and of spasmodic twitchings of limbs without fainting, _i.e._ without loss of conscio...

Every medical practitioner must have met with a certain class of cases which has set at defiance every effort at diagnosis, baffled every treatment, and belied every prognosis....