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
SANATOGEN, 96
Savill on differences between neurasthenia and hysteria, 41
Self-abuse _See_ "Masturbation"
Self control, how far possible to neuropaths, 123-125
Self-restraint, The neuropath's lack of, 129, 130
Sentimentality to be discouraged in nervous children, 104
Sex education, The need for, 131
Sex-incidence in epilepsy, 18
Sex instruction for children, 110, 112
Sexual development early in neuropaths, 113, 114
---- excesses in relation to epilepsy, 16, 23
---- ---- in relation to neurasthenia, 31, 38
---- instinct, Awakening of, 109, 110
---- neurasthenia, 38
---- offences as manifestations of mental epilepsy, 9, 10
---- rules for neuropaths, 48
Shaw, Bernard, his sneer at marriage, 131
Sleep, Relation of, to epileptic fit, 4
Sleeplessness, 76-78
----, Causes of, 76, 77
----, Treatment of, 77, 78, 85
---- in neurasthenia, 33
Sollmann on proprietary foods, 94, 96
Soothing syrups, 13
"Sound nerves", 52
Spirit writing, 11, 12
Spiritualism, Danger of, for neuropaths, 107
Spratling on epilepsy in consumptives, 17
Starr's statistics as to age-incidence in epilepsy, 17
---- ---- heredity in epileptics, 121
---- ---- types of epilepsy, 15
_Status epilepticus_, 7
---- ----, as final termination of epilepsy, 16
Subconscious mind, The, 10
Suggestion treatment, 82-85
Suicide in neurasthenics and hysterical subjects, 35, 41, 42
Sunstroke as cause of fits, 21
Sweetmeats, The use of, 64
Sympathy, Harm done by, in hysteria, 44, 45
TAPE worms, 102
Tea and coffee, 64
Teeth, Care of the, 54, 55
Tobacco undesirable for neuropaths, 74
Trades for epileptics, 116
---- ---- neuropaths, 115-117
Turner on age-incidence of epilepsy, 18
UNCONSCIOUS activities, 39, 40
Unconsciousness in epilepsy, 3-5
Urine, Incontinence of, in epilepsy, 3-5
VEGETABLE Foods, 64
Villi, The intestinal, 57
Vittoz's exercises in mental concentration, 51
Vomiting, Risk of, in epilepsy, 26
WATER, When to drink, 61, 64, 68
Weir Mitchell Treatment, 50
Wife for the neuropath, The, 132-135
---- of a neuropath, Advice to the, 132-137
Will, Neuropath's lacking in, 125
Work and play, 115-117
Worms, Intestinal, 102
Worry as cause of neurasthenia, 31
---- to be avoided by neuropaths, 47, 49
_Printed in Great Britain by Jarrold & Sons, Ltd., Norwich_
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