Hysteria : remote causes of disease in general treatment of disease by tonic agency local or surgical forms of hysteria, etc. six lectures delivered to the students of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1866 / by F.C. Skey.

  • Skey, Frederic C. (Frederic Carpenter), 1798-1872.
Date:
1867
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Credit: Hysteria : remote causes of disease in general treatment of disease by tonic agency local or surgical forms of hysteria, etc. six lectures delivered to the students of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1866 / by F.C. Skey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a reduction of vital power by artificial agency I cannot understand. We talk of “increased lieat,” of “increased action/' of “excitement/’ and so on, as demanding a reduction or a lowering of the vital powers; while it is notorious that intense heat of skin is the frequent attendant on the last hours of life, and who will venture to treat the “ excitement ” of delirium tremens hy any agent less potent .than Alcohol or Opium? The great machine of Medical knowledge, however, is moving onwards in the direction of truth. On a line between the antagonistic principles of the schools of Cullen and of Brown the Profession will even- tually take its stand—at a point, I suspect, far nearer to Brown than to Cullen. This is the natural reaction following on years of error. The palpable confusion between diseases of the vascular and of the nervous systems which has so long prevailed is but evidence of the same error. Whether the sketch I have drawn be overcharged— for it does not affect the pretension of a finished incture —I leave to be determined by others.