Cases of hysteria, neurasthenia, spinal irritation, and allied affections : with remarks.

  • Beard, George M. (George Miller), 1839-1883.
Date:
1874
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Credit: Cases of hysteria, neurasthenia, spinal irritation, and allied affections : with remarks. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CASES OF HYSTERIA, NEURASTHENIA SPINAL IRRITATION, AND ALLIED AFFECTIONS; WITH RE MARKS. By G:eokge M. Beard, M.D., New York. From Chicago yoitrnal of Nervous and Mental Disease. TNDER this head I propose to detail a few cases of nervous disease—commonly called functional—that are at once exceedingly frequent and exceedingly annoying both to patients and physicians. I shall treat the subject mainly from the clinical and practical stand-point, reserving the dis- cussion of its scientiiic and philosophic relations for another occasion. By hysteria and allied affections I mean that large and increasingly numerous class of affections that pass among the people and among the profession by the vague and half-erro- neous terms, spinal irritation, nervous exhaustion, general debility, general neuralgia, etc. In a work on which I have been long engaged, and which is