A Practical treatise on nervous exhaustion (neurasthenia)Treat, 1880 - 262 pages |
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Page 49 - When the nervous system loses, through any cause, much of its nervous force, so that it cannot stand upright with ease and comfort, it leans on the nearest and most convenient artificial support that is capable of temporarily propping up the enfeebled frame. Anything that gives ease, sedation, oblivion, such as chloral, chloroform, opium, or alcohol, may be resorted to at first as an incident, and finally as a habit.
Page 162 - Mezger's manner and according to the indications which a very large experience enabled him to point out, is a most worthy agent in various affections of the joints, besides in inflammations and neuroses. They considered that credit was due to Mezger for having improved massage in a physiological manner, and for having brought it to be acknowledged as a highly valuable method. The esteem in which this method of treatment is held by physicians -and surgeons on the continent of Europe who interest themselves...
Page 132 - ... winds and currents; it is usually impossible by a single prescription, to steer a neurasthenic sufferer over the long voyage to health. Individual idiosyncrasies must be religiously respected, and when we find one cannot bear gelsemin or belladonna, for example, we can fall back on other remedies. 4. Medical treatment to be surely effective must be combined with hygienic treatment. In correct analysis, hygiene is therapeutics, the distinctions we are wont to draw between them being purely arbitrary....
Page 183 - ... cerebrasthenia and myelasthenia when the patient remains at home, or near at home, or at least in his own country, with short vacations. And oftentimes there is no need of breaking ^ up business or interfering with the plans of life. Not unfrequently cases of this class progress more satisfactorily when their minds are occupied with their favorite employment, even though sometimes they may be overtasked in it, and become at times over-wearied and excited. In the case of a prominent man that I...
Page 105 - ... Neurasthenia sometimes simulates in a perfect and most interesting way the symptoms of a common cold — the chilliness, the positive coldness, the tremor, the heaviness and soreness of the back, bones, and limbs, and in some cases, excessive secretion from the eyes and nostrils, all may exist together in a neurasthenic sufferer, and in some cases only time can determine whether a cold has been taken or not. Neurasthenia also may simulate rheumatism, and is frequently mistaken for it. Thus the...
Page 183 - ... and in other cases evil, and only evil results are obtained. I have constantly under my care cases of both forms of neurasthenia, who have spent months and years abroad, under advice of physicians, not only without benefit, but in some instances have been positively injured. Cases of myelasthenia, especially, are very liable to be made worse by the fatigue of travel, by the discomfort of absence from home, by the laborious and oftentimes wearisome and exhausting tasks of sight-seeing. Many are...
Page 162 - It is but recently that massage has gained an extensive scientific consideration, since it has passed out of the hands of rough and ignorant empirics into those of educated physicians ; and upon the result of recent scientific investigations it has been cultivated into an improved therapeutical system, and has won for itself in its entirety the merit of having become a special branch...
Page 17 - Pain, Pressure and Heaviness in the back of the head and over the vertex and through the whole 'head, very commonly attend the neurasthenic state, especially when the brain is congested ; but many also appear where there is no evidence of an excess of blood on the brain. Lightness of the head is also a common complaint ; also a symptom usually defined as "I cannot tell how I feel.
Page 131 - ... dozen, that had taken quinine and iron, judiciously and faithfully given, and who were still uncured and unrelieved. There is, in fact, no routine plan of treatment for these cases. Each case must be studied closely and carefully by itself. 3. The treatment should be frequently changed, according to the needs of the patient.
Page 115 - Neurasthenia is a chronic, functional disease of" the nervous system, the basis of which is impoverishment of nervous force...