Fat and blood : an essay on the treatment of certain forms of neurasthenia and hysteria / by S. Weir Mitchell.

  • Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir), 1829-1914.
Date:
1898
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Credit: Fat and blood : an essay on the treatment of certain forms of neurasthenia and hysteria / by S. Weir Mitchell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTORY. For some years I have been using with suc- cess, in private and in hospital practice, certain methods of renewing the vitality of feeble people by a combination of entire rest and of excessive feeding, made possible by passive exercise ob- tained through the steady use of massage and electricity. The cases thus treated have been chiefly women of a class well known to every physician,—ner- vous women, who, as a rule, are thin and lack blood. Most of them have been such as had passed through many hands and been treated in turn for gastric, spinal, or uterine troubles, but who remained at the end as at the beginning, in- valids, unable to attend to the duties of life, and sources alike of discomfort to themselves and anxiety to others. In 1875 I published in “ Seguin’s Series of American Clinical Lectures,” Vol. I., No. iv., a