The Post-Graduate Volume 10, No. 10 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...very unfavorable. In a case treated by him in the Mount Sinai Dispensary, a man suffering from hemi-anaethesia and hemiplegia had been treated by hypnotism, and had improved under this treatment. Dr. F. Cabot said that physicians often allowed their patients to be more involved in law suits than they intended. Recently he had seen a case occurring in a patient having a history of epilepsy in the family. During the extraction of a tooth, the patient had had what was said to be an epileptic fit. Further investigation showed that shortly before this, the patient had sustained a slight fall on the end of the spine from a jar in a railroad car. The first examination showed little or no tenderness over the coccyx, and a similar result followed the second examination; but at the third examination, she complained quite severely of pain and tenderness in this region. She then tried to alter her original statements regarding the time when the first attack occurred, and was evidently endeavoring to lead the speaker to think that the railroad company was, after all, responsible for her trouble. If the physician were not constantly on his guard in such cases, he might be led to encourage a patient of this kind to bring suit, which would not only be unjust to those sued, but would tend to aggravate the patient's condition. Dr. Louise Fiske-bryson asked if the prognosis were not always good if the patient were dissuaded from bringing a lawsuit. She would also like to know whether the troubles of old soldiers could not be classified as traumatic neuroses due to the injuries received in active service, or to the exposure to which the soldiers had been subjected. Dr. Dana said he did not doubt that many would be better off if they settled without suit, and...