| Description Of Item | Pages 139 to 142 from the Lancet, originally published 10 February 1866. Article titled ‘Lecture 1. General Remarks on the Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Functional Nervous Affections)’, part of a series called ‘Lectures on the Recent Advances of our Knowledge in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Functional Nervous Affections’ by Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard, FRS [Fellow of the Royal Society], etc. Only second part of ‘Lecture 1,’ with other parts in the previous and following issues. Concerning syncope, epilepsy, paralysis, palsy, eclampsia, delirium tremens, and hysteria. Explains some mechanical and physical means of treatment (increasing the quantity of blood in peripheric parts of the body, in the trunk and head), treatment through an irritation of the sensitive and other incident nerves (with ligatures, pinching, rubbing, circular blisters, applications of cold and/or heat), and complex modes of treatment which combine both processes of irritation of the nerves and modification of the blood.
From the collection of Thomas Laycock. |