Nerve prostration and other functional disorders of daily life / by Robson Roose.

  • Roose, Robson, 1848-1905.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Nerve prostration and other functional disorders of daily life / by Robson Roose. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Blisters — Acupuncture—Hot Baths — Warm Applications — The Scotch Douche—Hot Sand-Baths—Massage—Nerve-Stretching 317-259 CHAPTER IX. Articular Neuroses—Neuralgia of the Joints. Nature and Pathogeny of Neuralgia of the Joints—Predisposing and Ex- citing Causes—Symptoms—Cutaneous Hyperaesthesia—Position of the Limb—Joints usually Affected—Course and Progress of Neu- ralgia of Joints-—Diagnosis—Anaesthesia often Necessary—Mental Condition of the Patient—Results of Application of Bandages, etc.— Exaggerated Patellar Reflex in Hysterical Contraction of the Knee- joints—Pain in Knee an Occasional Symptom of Hip-Joint Disease —Treatment, Constitutional and Local—Massage, Douches, Baths, etc.—Electricity—Use of the Limb to be Recommended 260-267 CHAPTER X. Headache. Pain in Head often Symptomatic—Associated with Cerebral Hyperaemia, Active and Passive— Causes and Consequences—Anaemic Headache —Symptoms—Headaches in Neurasthenia and Nervous Subjects Generally—Sympathetic Headache—Indigestion as a Cause of Headache—Rheumatic and Gouty Headache—Headache due to Intemperance—Headache in Hysterical Subjects—Pains in the Head due to Syphilis—Headache due to Disorders of the Refractive Apparatus of the Eye—Diagnosis of Headache—Treatment of the Hyperaemic and Anaemic Forms—Remedies for Neurasthenic and Rheumatic Cases—Empirical Treatment ... ... 268-281 CHAPTER XI. Hemicrania—Migraine—Megrim. Frequency of Hemicrania—Its Prominent Features—Premonitory Sym- ptoms—Symptoms of the Attack—Phenomena indicative of Vaso- Motor Disturbance—Tv^'o Forms—Disorders of Vision—Periodicity of Migraine—Length of Paroxysms—Causes of Migraine—Sex, Age, Hereditary Tendency, Gouty Predisposition—Exciting Causes—