On the Curability of Certain Forms of Insanity, Epilepsy, Catalepsy, and Hysteria in Females

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On the Curability of Certain Forms of Insanity, Epilepsy, Catalepsy, and Hysteria in Females

by Isaac Baker Brown

EN·~2 hours·11 chapters

Chapters

11 total
1

ON THE CURABILITY OF CERTAIN FORMS OF INSANITY, EPILEPSY, CATALEPSY, AND HYSTERIA IN FEMALES.

1:15
2

TO DR. E. BROWN-SÉQUARD. F.R.S., &c.

0:33
3

PREFACE.

2:09
4

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.

15:35
5

CHAPTER II. SYMPTOMS AND PROGRESS OF DISEASE—AGE AND CLASS OF PATIENTS TO BE TREATED—OPERATION—AFTER-TREATMENT, ETC.

6:26
6

CHAPTER III. HYSTERIA, WITH CASES.

21:42
7

CHAPTER IV. SPINAL IRRITATION, WITH CASES

14:21
8

CHAPTER V. EPILEPTOID CONVULSIONS, OR HYSTERICAL EPILEPSY, WITH CASES.

10:47
9

CHAPTER VI. CATALEPSY, WITH CASES.

11:29
10

CHAPTER VII. EPILEPSY, WITH CASES.

20:09

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Language

en

Duration

~2 hours (134K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United Kingdom: Robert Hardwicke, 1866.

Credits

Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2021-07-27

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Isaac Baker Brown

Isaac Baker Brown

1812–1873

A controversial Victorian gynecologist and surgeon, he became well known in his day for his work in women’s medicine and is now remembered for promoting harmful procedures that have since been condemned. His life offers a striking look at the ambitions and blind spots of 19th-century medicine.

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