Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia - Their Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment

Project Gutenberg's Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia, by Isaac G. Briggs This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia Author: Isaac G. Briggs Release Date: February 4, 2005 [EBook #14901] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EPILEPSY, HYSTERIA, AND NEURASTHENIA *** Produced by Martin Agren, Keith Edkins and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team. [iii] EPILEPSY, HYSTERIA, AND NEURASTHENIA THEIR CAUSES, SYMPTOMS, & TREATMENT BY ISAAC G. BRIGGS A.R.S.I. METHUEN & CO. LTD. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON [iv]First Published in 1921 [v] TO ALBERT E. WOODRUFF OF STOKE PRIOR NR. BROMSGROVE MY OLD SCHOOLMASTER [vii] CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE PREFACE ix I. MAJOR AND MINOR EPILEPSY 1 II. RARER TYPES OF EPILEPSY 7 III. GENERAL REMARKS 15 IV. CAUSES OF EPILEPSY 20 V. PREVENTION OF ATTACKS 25 VI. FIRST-AID TO VICTIMS 28 VII. NEURASTHENIA 30 VIII. HYSTERIA 39 IX. ADVICE TO NEUROPATHS 46 X. FIRST STEPS TOWARD HEALTH 53 XI. DIGESTION 56 XII. INDIGESTION 60 XIII. DIETING 63 XIV. CONSTIPATION 67 XV. GENERAL HYGIENE 71 XVI. SLEEPLESSNESS 76 XVII. THE EFFECTS OF IMAGINATION 79 XVIII. SUGGESTION TREATMENT 82 XIX. MEDICINES 86 XX. PATENT MEDICINES 90 XXI. TRAINING THE NERVOUS CHILD 98 XXII.