Our home physician: a new and popular guide to the art of preserving health and treating disease; with plain advice for all the medical and surgical emergencies of the family . se. Like hypochondria, it is really a disease, and isto be treated accordingly. Moral influence can do much, but it can-not do everything. It is a nervous disease, and is to be managedon the same general principles as other nervous diseases. It should always be remembered that hysteria is to womanwhat hypochondria is to man. Both are really diseases. Both areprobably symptoms of some disturbance of the central nervoussy
Our home physician: a new and popular guide to the art of preserving health and treating disease; with plain advice for all the medical and surgical emergencies of the family . se. Like hypochondria, it is really a disease, and isto be treated accordingly. Moral influence can do much, but it can-not do everything. It is a nervous disease, and is to be managedon the same general principles as other nervous diseases. It should always be remembered that hysteria is to womanwhat hypochondria is to man. Both are really diseases. Both areprobably symptoms of some disturbance of the central nervoussystem. Both are increasing in frequency. Both are often pre-monitions of actual insanity. Both may occur at any time of lifeafter puberty. Both diseases may often be relieved and cured byappropriate treatment. (For principles and details of treatment see Treatment of Ner-vous Diseases.) ICE-BAGS AND BAGS OF HOT WATEK. Dr. Chapman, of London, has introduced to the profession amethod of treatment that consists in the application of rubber bags,filled with ice or hot water, to the spine. This method of treat-ment has been found to be quite successful in a variety of nervous. diseases. They are recommended for convulsions, neuralgiay sick head-ache, sea-sickness, epilepsy, St. Vitus8 dance, and a variety of otheraffections. The bags for holding the ice are simply a matter of AND MOST RECENT METHODS OF TREATMENT. 667 neatness and convenience. Ice wrapped in a cloth or towel servesour purpose very well. I have used this treatment successfully forsick headache. ILIAC PASSION. Iliac passion, or Ileus, consists of excessive vomiting, with ob-stinate constipation of the bowels. This dangerous disease maycommence suddenly and terminate fatally in the course of four orfive days; but cases of this description are fortunately very usually commences with acute griping pain, obstinate constipa-tion of the bowels, retraction of the navel, and the usual symptomsof severe colic, which not
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