A Treatise on Emotional Disorders of the Sympathetic System of Nerves

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Moorhead, Simpson & Bond, 1868 - 92 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 16 - ... pregnancy? and to which, if our early attention is directed, and the proper treatment applied, the gastric trouble will be much lessened, if not entirely abated. Among the first of these, and not the least important, is the effect which the emotional or hysterical element may produce at this time. In some" people, if not in all, emotion, in some form or other, connects itself with every thought, word, and action, giving at one time zest to existence, at another depressing even the simplest of...
Pàgina 24 - ... consisted of an exceedingly weak and slow pulse, with a tendency to intermit and to vary on the slightest occasion ; when the patient was sitting its average was sixty, but, on rising to his feet it immediately rose to one hundred, and continued so as long as he was in the erect posture. As soon, however, as his trials passed away, the organ became restored to its normal condition.
Pàgina 91 - ... on these parts through the sympathetic system. < c. Symptoms occur during the prevalence of strong emotion which indicate alterations in the internal viscera similar to those which occur in external parts, viz. , changes in the vascularity, secretions, and muscular actions of those viscera which are largely supplied by sympathetic nerves ; therefore, from the nature of the effects produced, and from the relation of the parts acted on to the sympathetic system, it appears that emotion acts on...
Pàgina 21 - The reasoning faculties may be diseased, volitional power shaken, and more or less imbecility of mind produced...
Pàgina 24 - A gentleman, disappointed in business, was subjected to continual annoyance from superiors, who contrived to keep him in a subordinate position ; at length he became a prey to low spirits, and mourned secretly over his trials, and at the same time, he lost his health from bronchitis, dyspepsia, pains in the back, and swimming in the head...

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