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
HABIT, Importance of, in relation to constipation, 68
Haig on relation of uric acid to epilepsy, 23
Headache in neurasthenia, 32
Heredity, 118-122
Hobbies for neuropaths, 48
Hormone, The Function of a, 57
Hughlings Jackson, Dr, on the epileptic convulsion, 8
Husband of a neuropath, Advice to the, 138, 139
Huxley on the rules of the game of life, 46
Hygiene, General, 71-75
Hypochondriasis in neurasthenics, 36
Hypophosphites, 96
Hysteria, 39-45
----, Age incidence of, 41
----, Ancient views as to, 39
---- and neurasthenia contrasted, 41
---- Causes of, 40, 41
----, Modern theories as to, 39
----, Race incidence of, 42
----, Sex-incidence of, 39, 41
----, Symptoms of, 42-44
----, Treatment of, 44
Hysterical attack, The, 42, 43
IMAGINATION, Effects of, 79-81
Indigestion, 60-62
Infantile convulsions, 13
---- ----, relation of to epilepsy, 13
---- ----, Treatment of, 13
Inhibitory cells of brain, 20, 21
Injuries to brain as cause of epilepsy, 21
Insanity in relation to dissociation of consciousness, 11
---- ---- epilepsy, 16
Insomnia _See_ "Sleeplessness"
Intestinal worms, 102
Iron preparations, 95
JACKSONIAN epilepsy, 7, 8, 9
Janet on consciousness in hysteria, 40
Jones on the religious sentiment in neuropaths, 106, 107
KING'S evil, The, 86
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD on health and regimen, 65
Lecithin, 96
Lieberkuhn's glands, 57, 58
Life, in relation to tissue change, 58
Locock's introduction of bromides for epilepsy, 86
MACHINE, The human, 71, 72
Malt extracts, 93
Marriage, 131-139
---- and neuropathy, 122, 131, 132
---- of neuropaths should be childless, 134, 135
Mastication, Importance of thorough, 61
Masturbation, 110-112
----, Effects of, 111, 112
---- in relation to epilepsy, 16, 22, 114
---- ---- neurasthenia, 38
Meals, Number and time of, 64
Meat extracts, 93
---- juices, Value of, 64
----, Moderation in its use necessary, 65
Memory in epilepsy, 17
----, its subconscious basis, 10
Mendel's law of inheritance, 120, 121
Menopause in relation to neurasthenia, 31
Menstruation, Disordered, in neurasthenia, 33
---- in relation to epilepsy, 17, 22
Mental attitude of neurasthenics, 33-38
---- fatigue in neurasthenia, 33, 34
Mercier on the characteristics of the neuropath, 128-130
Mind in relation to consciousness, 10
Moral cowardice in relation to neurasthenia, 38
_Morbus comitialis_, 2
Motor cells of brain, 20, 21
Murder as manifestation of mental epilepsy, 10
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