was partially exhausted and docile. I could discover a mucoid fluid
emitting from the os uteri which evolved a strong venereal odor.
She informed me that she had voluptuous dreams nightly――as many as
three in a night. Her figure is small and round, eyes black, hair coal
black, countenance very sallow and chlorotic. She seemed to know that
this condition was not right, but her modesty was entirely gone, when
in company with a male. The presence of a woman restrained her. Her
own mother had not determined the true nature of her difficulty, only
noticed that something was peculiar with her daughter. The patient had
judgment enough left to go out of the room and isolate herself when a
man would come about. The advent of this disease she says was first
known by a peculiar thrill at the sight of a male, which became more
aggravated from day to day. Now, one year has she suffered from this
intolerable mania.
To pass over and not give the treatment would leave the case quite
incomplete.
_Treatment._――I directed monobromated camph., in two gr. pills, one
every 4 hours, with formula No. 1, as directed; ice-water to the vulva
nights, with daily applications of Faradisation by placing a wetted
sponge upon a chair with the patient seated upon it, to which the
negative pole is attached; used the positive in my left hand, with my
right hand applied to the head and down the spine. Improvement took
place from the beginning, and in forty days she was quite herself.
She was improved in flesh, color and strength. In two months she was
so modest that I could scarce gather courage to ask her if she was
yet troubled with any signs of her old affliction. I could not obtain
consent to make another physical examination, and she remains well,
but is continuing to take the medicine, from formula No. 1. She has
strength of will, I am informed by her “intended,” to refuse any degree
of proximity. He says, “It seems like a dream. I am learning to court
her over again, and succeed very slowly. She is so distant.”
The two cases reported by Prof. S. H. Potter in the April number of
_Am. Med. Journal_, 1876, do not overdraw the picture, any one will
testify who has had a few of these perplexing patients to manage.
“Miss M. T., age 18 years, of sanguine temperament, quite
corpulent for her age, a wealthy farmer’s daughter,
distinguished for her modesty, intelligence, prudence and good
social qualities.
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