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
Mrs. P., æt. 38, was a rather nervous woman, easily tired, but not
anæmic and not very thin. She improved greatly under the treatment.
Before Electricity. After Electricity.
January 27 98-3/5 99-1/5 Thermometer in axilla ten
" 29 98-2/5 99-1/5 minutes before and after.
" 30 99-1/5 99-3/5
" 31 98-4/5 99-2/5
February 1 99 99-2/5
Menstrual period.
February 8 98-2/5 99-1/5
" 9 98-3/5 99
" 10 98-2/5 99
" 12 98-1/5 99-3/5
" 13 98-2/5 99
" 14 98-2/5 98-3/5
" 15 98-2/5 98-4/5
" 19 99 98-2/5
" 20 98 99
" 23 98-3/5 99-4/5 Thermometer in mouth five
" 24 99 99-2/5 minutes before and after.
" 27 99-1/5 99-3/5
" 28 98-4/5 99-4/5
Menstrual period.
Menstrual period.
Before Electricity. After Electricity.
March 13 99 99-2/5
" 14 98-4/5 98-4/5
" 15 99 99-1/5
Miss R., æt. 27, was a fair case of hysterical conditions; over-use of
chloral and bromides; anorexia and loss of flesh and color.
Thermometer in mouth.
Before Electricity. After Electricity.
May 15 100 100 }
} General faradization
" 16 100 100 } for fifteen minutes.
}
" 17 100-1/5 100-2/5 }
" 18 98-2/5 98-3/5 } General faradization,
} fifteen minutes, also of
" 19 99-4/5 100-1/10 } arm muscles, twenty minutes.
May 20 100-1/10 100
General faradization, ten
" 22 99-2/5 99-3/5 minutes; arms and legs
twenty minutes.
" 26 99-1/10 99-2/10
" 27 99-3/10 99-4/10
" 28 99-2/5 99-2/5
" 29 99-3/10 99-3/10
" 30 99-1/10 99-4/10
" 31 99-1/10 99-2/10
June 2 99-3/5 99-4/5
" 4 99-5/10 99-6/10
" 6 99-3/10 99-5/10
" 7 99-3/10 99-5/10
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