Woman's medical guide : containing essays on the physical, moral and educational development of females : and the homeopathic treatment of their diseases in all periods of life : together with directions for the remedial use of water and gymnastics / by J.H. Pulte.

  • Pulte, J. H. (Joseph Hippolyt), 1811-1884.
Date:
1869
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Credit: Woman's medical guide : containing essays on the physical, moral and educational development of females : and the homeopathic treatment of their diseases in all periods of life : together with directions for the remedial use of water and gymnastics / by J.H. Pulte. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    individual, any abnormal degree of excitement that might serve to add to the purely physiological action of the reproductive organs, you could well deem sufficient to send its aura forth upon its mis- sion of mischief throughout the entire economy. Hysteria may be considered as a chronic disease, appearing from time to time in paroxysms. These latter are very irregular as to their characteristic symptoms, their intensity and exciting causes. Sometimes they occur at once without any appa- rent cause, or at least but a slight one, not pro- portionate to the effect produced, at other times exciting causes of the severest kind, must operate on the system for a length of time before a hys- terical fit is produced. To the unpracticed eye, the diagnosis of hys- teria is rather difficult; but a careful observation of the pulse, the movements of which are not under the voluntary control of the patient, soon leads us to distinguish between severe forms of diseases and their hysterical counterfeits. An hysterical attack usually commences by a feeling of tightness and fulness in the abdomen, which, rolling upwards like a ball, (globus lujster;- cus,) produces, after it has reached the throat, a distressing sensation of choking and suffocation, followed by various efforts of the patient of reliev- ing herself from the smothering and pressure, by eructations of wind, .throwing around her.arm?,