The term students' hysteria has been applied to the neuromimetic disorders from which medical students frequently suffer during their attendance upon lectures. Some years since, when engaged in examining students upon the lectures upon the practice of medicine delivered by Professor DaCosta, I saw many illustrations of this affection, {220} some of which were very amusing. In a paper on hysteria which received the prize at the Physical Society of Guy's Hospital, P. Horrocks[44] writes that during the fortnight following the death of the late Napoleon, Sir James Paget was consulted for stone in the bladder by no less than four gentlemen who had nothing the matter with them. “How many students,” says Horrocks, “are there, of one year's standing or more, who have not imagined and really became convinced that they were suffering from some disease, generally a fatal disease?” In such cases we have a combination of true psychical influence with overwork and the unhygienic surroundings for which our medical colleges are notorious. [Footnote 44: _Med. and Surg. Reporter_, vol. xxxvii., Nov. 24, 1877.] It has been my personal experience that comparatively few cases of hysteria occur among female medical students. Not long since a thesis was presented at graduation by a woman medical student[45] on the curative effects of professional training in neurasthenic and hysterical women. In this she shows that there are certain relations of mind over body which enable it to modify bodily conditions and ward off disease when other remedies appear almost powerless. She illustrates the therapeutic power of mental impressions and occupations by two cases in which a judicious and careful course of study acted to cure severe nervous and uterine troubles. One of these women, who had suffered with neurasthenia and general debility, severe nervous headaches, and other symptoms, was able during her last year at college to attend fifteen lectures a week, besides clinics, prepare for examination on five subjects, and was seldom troubled with even headache. She afterward was employed in hospital work, and could walk five miles a day without discomfort. That women medical students know when and how to take care of themselves during the menstrual period, and that they can, if they see fit, cease work or lighten their labors at that time, would partly account for their escaping from nervous break-down. [Footnote 45: “The Therapeutic Value of Mental Occupation,” by Hannah M. Thompson, M.D., _Medical and Surgical Reporter_, November, 1883.]