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On Certain Conditions of Nervous Derangement, Somnambulism--Hypnotism-Hysteria-Hysteriod Affections, Etc
On Certain Conditions of Nervous Derangement SomnambulismHypnotismHysteriaHysteriod Affections Etc Author:William Alexander Hammond General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1881 Original Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Subjects: Hysteria Nervous system Medical / Neurology Medical / Neuroscience Medical / Surgery / Neurosurgery Psychology / Neuropsychology Psychology / Psychopathology / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR re... more »print of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. SOME PHASES OF HYSTERIA. TT is not to be expected that, in a work like the present, .- hyster a can be treated with that degree of fulness requisite for the study of the disorder in all its multiform aspects; neither would that be desirable, as such a course would lead us far into the domain of pure medical science, and one object -- the principal which I had in writing this little work, would be defeated. All that is necessary or proper, is to make the reader acquainted with certain broad features of the affection, and to indicate the relations which it bears to various delusions prevalent among mankind? There is a strong tendency in all persons afflicted with hysteria, to the occurrence of symptoms which simulate organic diseases of various kinds. Paralysis, both of motion and of sensation, is one of the morbid conditions thus assumed ; this tendency is not generally voluntary, though undoubtedly cases are not infrequent in which the simulation is clearly intentional, and others more numerous, in which volition, when drought to bear with full force upon the disposition, will over- For a full account of hysteria and hysterical affections, the reader is referred to the author's treatise on Diseases of the Nervous System, seventh edition. New York. 1881. come it. In these latter cases there is, as it were, a paralysis of the will. In other instances, hysterical perso...« less