Woods Medical And Surgical Monographs Vol 3

Download or read book Wood's Medical and Surgical Monographs, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint) written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Wood's Medical and Surgical Monographs, Vol. 3 I think it desirable here to explain that this brochure does not profess to be a complete and systematic treatise on the subject of neurasthenia, nor of insomnia and nerve depression. Its purpose is to describe the special characters of a common type of nerve derangement, to prove that the insomnia and depression in this type are dependent on cerebral congestion, and to illustrate the remarkable efficacy of blood-letting, either by leeching or venesection, in its treatment. Hence, it should be understood on the one hand, that I am not describing every variety of insomnia, nor on the other is my description inclusive of every class of case benefited by leeching. The remedy has rarely fallen short of my anticipations in selected cases, but has very often exceeded them to such an extent that I have felt impelled to bring some of my experience before the profession, a step which I trust will be fully justified by the clinical evidence recorded in these pages. In the course of practice there come frequently under observation, cases characterized by a vague set of subjective symptoms, not always clearly definable by the patient, not very urgent if judged by pain or by any objective signs, which may, indeed, be entirely absent. Yet an individual so suffering may be incapacitated from his employment; he may cease to appreciate the pleasures and comforts of life, and have no real interest in what has previously absorbed him. His subjective feelings may express a distress which he himself cannot describe, and which he expects no one else to appreciate or understand. These cases vary in severity from the lightest depression and sense of effort on exertion to the most aggravated forms of melancholia verging on the borderland of insanity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.