Fat and Blood
An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria
Author: S. Weir Mitchell
Copyright Status: Public Domain
Language: English
Subjects: Non-Fiction, Medicine, Diet; Therapeutics, Physiological; Medical / General; Health
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FAT AND BLOOD:
AN ESSAY ON THE TREATMENT OF CERTAIN FORMS OF NEURASTHENIA AND HYSTERIA.
S. WEIR MITCHELL, M.D., LL.D. HARV.,
MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.
PREFACE TO THE EIGHTH EDITION.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTORY.
CHAPTER II.
GAIN OR LOSS OF WEIGHT CLINICALLY CONSIDERED.
CHAPTER III.
ON THE SELECTION OF CASES FOR TREATMENT.
CHAPTER IV.
SECLUSION.
CHAPTER V.
REST.
CHAPTER VI.
MASSAGE.
CHAPTER VII.
ELECTRICITY.
CHAPTER VIII.
DIETETICS AND THERAPEUTICS.
CHAPTER IX.
DIETETICS AND THERAPEUTICS(CONTINUED).
CHAPTER X.
THE TREATMENT OF LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA, ATAXIC PARAPLEGIA, SPASTIC PARALYSIS, AND PARALYSIS AGITANS.
INDEX.
THE END.
FOOTNOTES:
Disclaimer
Note
PREFACE TO THE EIGHTH EDITION.
The continued favor which this book has enjoyed in Europe as well as in this country has rendered me doubly desirous to make it a thorough and clear statement of the treatment of the kind of cases which it discusses as carried out in my practice today.
In the endeavor to do this, the present edition, like the last two, has been carefully revised by my son, Dr. John K. Mitchell, and there is no chapter, and scarcely a page, where some alteration or addition has not been made, besides those of the sixth and seventh editions, as the result of added years of experience. Especially in the chapters on the means of treatment, some details have been thought worth adding to help the statement so often repeated in the book that success will depend on the care with which details are carried out. The chapter on massage, rewritten for the last edition, has been once more revised and somewhat extended, in order to make it an accurate as well as a scientific, if brief, statement of the best method which uses and observation have taught us. A chapter on the handling of several diseases not described in former editions has been added by the editor.
S. WEIR MITCHELL.
SEPTEMBER, 1899.
Chapter I
For some years I have been using with success, in private and in hospital practice, certain methods of renewing the vitality of feeble people by a combination of entire rest and excessive feeding, made possible by passive exercise obtained through the steady use of massage and electricity.
The cases thus treated have been chiefly women of a class well known to every physician,nervous women, who, as a rule, are thin and lack blood. Most of them have been such as had passed through many hands and been treated in turn for gastric, spinal, or uterine troubles, but who remained at the end as at the beginning, invalids, unable to attend to the duties of life, and sources alike of discomfort to themselves and anxiety to others.
In 1875 I published in "Séguin's Series of American Clinical Lectures," Vol. I., No. iv., a brie