Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia: Their Causes, Symptoms, & TreatmentBriggs, Isaac George
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Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia: Their Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment
Briggs, Isaac George
Epilepsy; Hysteria; Nervous system -- Diseases; Neurasthenia
BACKACHE in neurasthenia, 32
Baths, Advice as to, for neuropaths, 48, 73, 74
Blaud's pills, 95
Brain, Morbid changes in, associated with epilepsy, 18, 19
----, Structure of the, 20
Bromides, Action of, hindered by salt, 65
---- in the prevention of epilepsy, 26
---- ---- treatment of epilepsy, 86-88, 92
---- the basis of every epilepsy cure, 92
Bromism, 87
Brooding, harmful to neuropaths, 49, 50
CALM necessary in dealing with nervous children, 106
Carlyle, 90
Character, 123-30
----, The basis of, 124
Chyle, The, 57
Chyme, The, 56
Circulation, The, in neuropaths, 73
Circulatory Disturbances in neurasthenia, 33
Clark on frequency of fits during repose, 23
Clark's statistics of epilepsy, 15
Cleanliness, 73
Climacteric, in relation to hysteria, 41
Clothing for neuropaths, 74
Coddling, Danger of, for nervous children, 103
"Complex", The, in consciousness, 10, 11
Concentration, Lack of, in neurasthenia, 34
----, Mental, Exercises in, 51
Confession, The value of, 40
Conscious Mind, The, 10, 39
Consciousness, Alteration of, in epileptic attack, 3, 4, 6
----, Dissociation of, 11
Constipation, 67-70
----, Causes of, 67, 68
----, Symptoms of, 68
----, Treatment of, 68-70
Convulsions, Epileptic. _See_ "Fit"
---- in alcoholism, 23
---- in children, 13
---- in diabetes, 23
---- in pregnancy, 14
Cooking in relation to digestibility, 58
Country resorts suitable for neuropaths, 47
Criminal acts in psychic or mental epilepsy, 9, 10
Culpepper's Herbal, 86
DARK, Nervous children's fear of the, 105
Day-dreaming, 11, 108
Death, 58
Degeneration, Signs of, in epileptics, 17
Dementia, Epileptic, 16
Demonic Influence in relation to epilepsy, 1, 2
Dieting, 63-66
Digestion of foods, 58, 59
---- ----, Time occupied by the, 58
----, The process of, 56-59
Digestive troubles in relation to epilepsy, 22, 26
---- ----, neurasthenia, 32, 33
Discipline of the nervous child, 103-106
Dissociation of consciousness, 11
Dostoieffsky's "The Idiot", a study of epilepsy, 130
Douche, The cold, for neuropaths, 74
Dreams, 12
----, Sex-basis in, 12
Drug habit, The, in neuropaths, 93
Duties and trials of a neuropath's wife, 132-137
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