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CEREBRAL HYPERÆMIA: THE RESULT OF MENTAL STRAIN
OR EMOTIONAL DISTURBANCES. 16mo, cloth ... $1 00 "Under the disguise of these hard words, Dr. Hammond presents a
variety of admirable counsels, with regard to an excess of blood in
the head, pointing out its causes, its symptoms, the mode of its
medical treatment, and the means of its prevention." N. Y. Tribune. "The work is not only of interest to the medical man, but also is
one easily understood and to be read with profit by brain workers of
all classes, whether in profession, in literature or business. It
treats of the cause of headaches, the wakefulness, the illusions or
delusions, and feelings of tightness in the head, which so many of
our American writers and thinkers experience, and it gives valuable
information available by laymen as to the prevention and remedy for
this affection, which later on leads to insanity or death." Boston
Traveller. G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK.
FASTING GIRLS; THEIR PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY
BY WILLIAM A. HAMMOND, M.D. PROFESSOR OF DISEASES OF THE MIND AND NERVOUS SYSTEM IN THE
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE CITY OF
NEW YORK, AND IN THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT. ETC.
"There is no new thing under the Sun."
Eccl. I, 9. "Nil spernat auris, nec tamen credat statim."
PHÆDRUS.
NEW YORK
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
182 FIFTH AVENUE
1879
COPYRIGHT BY
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS.
1879.
Transcriber's Note: Greek text has been transliterated and is shown between {braces}.
The oe ligature is shown as [oe].
PREFACE.
In issuing this little book I have been actuated by a desire to do
something towards the removal of a lamentable degree of popular
ignorance. It seems that no proposition that can be made is so absurd or impossible
but that many people, ordinarily regarded as intelligent, will be found
to accept it and to aid in its propagation. And hence, when it is
asserted that a young lady has lived for fourteen years without food of
any kind, hundreds and thousands of persons throughout the length and
breadth of a civilized land at once yield their belief to the monstrous
declaration. I have confined my remarks entirely to the question of abstinence from
food. The other supernatural gifts, the possession of which is claimed,
would, if considered, have extended the limits of this little volume
beyond the bounds which were deemed expedient. At some future time I may
be tempted to discuss them. In the meantime it is well to call to mind
that a proposition ( see Appendix) which I made solely in the interest
of truth was disregarded, ostensibly with the desire to avoid publicity,
when in fact the daily press had for weeks been filled with reports in
detail, furnished by the friends of the young lady in question, of the
marvellous powers she was said to possess. A portion of this essay, which bore upon the matter discussed, has been
taken from another volume by the author, published several years ago,
and now out of print. WILLIAM A. HAMMOND. 43 WEST 54TH STREET,
MARCH 1st, 1879 .
CONTENTS
PAGE I ABSTINENCE IN THE MIDDLE AGES 1 II ABSTINENCE IN MODERN TIMES 6 III ABSTINENCE FROM FOOD, WITH STIGMATIZATION 31 IV THE BROOKLYN CASE 48 V THE PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY OF INANITION 59
FASTING GIRLS.
I. ABSTINENCE IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
Among the many remarkable manifestations by which hysteria exhibits
itself, for the astonishment of the credulous and uneducated portion of
the public, and alas, that it should have to be said, for the
delectation of an occasional weak minded and ignorant physician, the
assumption of the ability to live without food may be assigned a
prominent place... Continue reading book >>
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