Insomnia and nerve strain / by Henry S. Upson ; with skiagraphic illustrations.

  • Upson, Henry Swift, 1859-1913.
Date:
1908
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Credit: Insomnia and nerve strain / by Henry S. Upson ; with skiagraphic illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    sages and astrologers wasted few formu- las over cases of insanity. The psycho- ses are a stone wall against which the waves of psychotherapy beat in vain. At most they wear away a little of the soft porous rock of the mildest of them. Hence the deplorable fact that so soon as a case is diagnosed as mania, melan- cholia or dementia precox, the patient is housed in an asylum, or at the very best, fed and tended by some loving rela- tive, pending the execution of nature's sentence. The doom of the patient lies inherent in the definition of his malady. So long as a psychosis is to the physician a disease without a lesion, sufferers from that dread malady of the soul will be given care with practically no treatment, pity with practically no hope. No apology, then, is necessary for any attempt to look behind the veil. It hides disease so hopeless that from the more dread form, dementia, fewer of those afflicted recover, in spite of all that love and skill can do, than of sufferers from