Fat and Blood: An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and HysteriaMitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)
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Fat and Blood: An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria
Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)
Hysteria; Neurasthenia; Rest
Drug-habits, treatment of, 137.
Eccles on massage, 101.
Electricity, 108.
Beard on, 115.
causing insomnia, 118.
during menstruation, 90.
in ataxia, 211.
in constipation, 109.
mode of using, 108, 116.
rise of temperature from, 110, 116.
when needed, 118.
Face, massage of, 105.
Fat in alcoholism, 23.
in its relation to health, 16.
increased by bleeding, 24.
milk-diet in, 128.
mode of accumulation of, 27.
reduction of, 128.
varieties of, 25.
Food, amount of, 146, 159.
in obesity, 130.
Goitre, exophthalmic, 46.
Gymnastics, Swedish, 92.
Harvey on corpulence, 129.
Head, massage of, 105.
Headache from massage, 100.
massage for, 105.
Heart-disease, treatment of, 45.
Hysteria. _Vide_ Cases.
Introduction, 9.
Iodide in ataxia, 201.
Iron, use of, 142.
Jackson on rest, 58.
Karell on milk-treatment, 120, 128.
Keen on albuminuria, 101.
Kidney, floating. _Vide_ Cases.
belt for, 190.
treatment of, 48, 66, 189.
Letheby on fattening stock, 26.
Malt extract, 138.
Japanese extract of, 141.
Marshall on urinary changes, 127.
Massage, 80.
abdominal, 86.
amount of, 92.
blood-changes from, 101.
causing acne, 89.
causing headache, 100.
chilliness from, 91.
during convalesence, 34.
during menstruation, 90.
Eccles on, 101.
effect on temperature, 93.
effects of general, 98, 101.
frequency of use, 90.
in anæmia, 101.
in heart-disease, 46.
in spastic paralysis, 225.
Lauder-Brunton on, 101.
lubricant undesirable in, 89.
of face, 105.
of head, 105.
order of application, 82, 91.
sexual excitement from, 91.
why useful, 98.
Melancholia, treatment of, 46.
Menstruation, effects of rest on, 149, 193.
electricity during, 90.
massage during, 90.
Milk, in alcoholism, 137.
in chloral habit, 137.
pasteurized, 121.
peptonized, 122.
quantity to be used, 123.
sterilization of, 121.
Milk diet, 119.
constipation caused by, 125.
disappearance of uric acid during use of, 126.
effects of, on urinary pigments, 126.
general effects of, 124.
in obesity, 128.
in obesity with anæmia, 128.
Karell on, 120, 128.
precautions in using, 123.
sleepiness from, 125.
stools during use of, 125.
urinary changes from, 126.
Morphia habit, treated by rest, etc., 137, 154, 165.
Movements, co-ordinate, in ataxia, 204.
in paralysis agitans, 231.
in paraplegia, 223.
in spastic paralysis, 226.
Swedish, 92.
Neurasthenia. _Vide_ Cases.
Nurse, choice of, 53.
Obesity, milk diet in, 128.
with anæmia, 128.
with anæmia. _Vide_ Cases.
Ovarian disorders treated by rest, etc., 47.
Paralysis agitans, 231.
Paraplegia, ataxic, 223.
spastic, 228.
Partial rest, 63.
schedule for, 64.
Peculiarities of American race, 17, 21, 32.
Phthisis, gain of weight in, 35.
Pollock on, 35.
Playfair on nerve-prostration, 12, 150.
Quetelet on gain of weight at different ages, 17.
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