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Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia Their Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment By: Isaac George Briggs (1892-) |
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THEIR CAUSES, SYMPTOMS, & TREATMENT BY
ISAAC G. BRIGGS
A.R.S.I. METHUEN & CO. LTD.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON First Published in 1921 TO
ALBERT E. WOODRUFF
OF STOKE PRIOR
NR. BROMSGROVE
MY OLD
SCHOOLMASTER CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE PREFACE ix I. MAJOR AND MINOR EPILEPSY 1 II. RARER TYPES OF EPILEPSY 7 III. GENERAL REMARKS 15 IV. CAUSES OF EPILEPSY 20 V. PREVENTION OF ATTACKS 25 VI. FIRST AID TO VICTIMS 28 VII. NEURASTHENIA 30 VIII. HYSTERIA 39 IX. ADVICE TO NEUROPATHS 46 X. FIRST STEPS TOWARD HEALTH 53 XI. DIGESTION 56 XII. INDIGESTION 60 XIII. DIETING 63 XIV. CONSTIPATION 67 XV. GENERAL HYGIENE 71 XVI. SLEEPLESSNESS 76 XVII. THE EFFECTS OF IMAGINATION 79 XVIII. SUGGESTION TREATMENT 82 XIX. MEDICINES 86 XX. PATENT MEDICINES 90 XXI. TRAINING THE NERVOUS CHILD 98 XXII. DANGERS AT AND AFTER PUBERTY 109 XXIII. WORK AND PLAY 115 XXIV. HEREDITY 118 XXV. CHARACTER 123 XXVI. MARRIAGE 131 XXVII. SUMMARY 140 BIBLIOGRAPHY 142 INDEX 145 PREFACE I hope this book will meet a real need, for when one considers how
prevalent epilepsy, hysteria and neurasthenia are, among all ranks and ages
of both sexes, it seems remarkable some such popular book was not written
long ago. I add nothing to our knowledge of these ills, my object being to put what
we know into simple words, and to insist on the necessity for personal
discipline being allied to expert aid. The book aims at helping, not
ousting, the doctor, who may find it of use in getting his patient to
see and to act on the obvious. "Nervous Disease", as here used, includes only the three diseases treated
of; "Neuropath" victims of them. "Advice" to a neuropath is usually a very depressing decalogue of "Thou
Shalt Nots!" If it be made clear why he must not do so and so, the
patient endeavours to obey; peremptorily ordered to obey, he rebels. Much
sound advice is wasted for lack of an interesting, convincing, "Reason
Why!" which would ensure the hearty and very helpful co operation of a
patient who had been taught that writing prescriptions is not the limit of
a doctor's activities. Many folk, with touching belief in his own claims, regard the quack as a
hoary headed sage, who from disinterested motives devotes his life to
curing ailments, by methods of which he alone has the secret, at low fees.
To fight this dangerous idea I have tried to show in an interesting way how
science deals with nerve ills, and to prove that qualified aid is needed.
Suggestions and criticisms will be welcomed. I. G. BRIGGS
THE UNIVERSITY,
BIRMINGHAM,
June , 1921 "Lette than clerkes enditen in Latin, for they have the propertie of
science, and the knowing in that facultie: and lette Frenchmen in their
Frenche also enditen their queinte termes, for it is kyndely to their
mouthes; and let us showe our fantasies in soche wordes as we lerneden of
our dames tongue." Chaucer... Continue reading book >>
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