A treatise on hysteria and epilepsy : with some concluding observations on epileptic insomnia / by J. Leonard Corning.

  • Corning, J. Leonard (James Leonard), 1855-1923.
Date:
1888
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    HYSTERIA. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY NOTE—DEFINITION. So heterogeneous and multitudinous are the symp- toms of the disease known as hysteria that an exact description of the affection is exceedingly difficult, and an adequate definition little short of impossible. We can be certain, however, that a large propor- tion of the manifestations of the affection are directly attributable to a functional derangement of the brain and spinal cord, while not a few of the phenomena are probably traceable to a morbid condition of the sympathetic and peripheral nervous system. It is impossible, moreover, to regard hysterical phenomena as the result of other than purely func- tional disturbances of the nervous system, since patho- logical anatomy has failed to afford other than ' nega- tive data. Nor is it probable that much enlighten- ment as to the ultimate morphology of the disease is to be anticipated from purely patho-anatomical sources On the contrary, if we are ever to be informed as to the nature of the occult pathology involved, it is un- doubtedly to a future pathological chemistry that we