Any neurologistof experience has cases where sexual frigidity and neurasthenia in a woman can be traced back to the shock of that all-important first night.
Indeed, it was first described in 1869 by the eminent neurologist Beard, who thought it was entirely caused by the stress and strain of American life.
It would not be the place here to give details of cases, though every neurologist of experience is well aware of the neuroses that arise in marriage, among both men and women.
Sir Thomas More relates that he saw a number of people suffering from various forms of possession--and any neurologistwill confess that some hysterics must have a devil--who were cured by being roundly whipped.
The distinguished French neurologist has shown that the classic symptoms of hysteria are the results of suggestion originating in medical examinations or from misapplied medical or surgical treatment.
A distinguished neurologist once said that no sane person in this world, outside of a novel or a play, has time to make it his business to persecute anyone else.
This recalls that distinguished old neurologist who wished to deny the attribute "sexual" to a childbirth phantasy which was represented in a dreamy state.
Such moments facilitate the outbreak of a neurosis, as every experienced neurologist knows.
Neurologist to Freedmen's Hospital and Epiphany Dispensary, Lecturer on Nervous and Mental Diseases, Howard University, Washington, D.
The man on the street or even many a leading neurologistwould perhaps accept this formula as his own.
A neurologist was at last consulted, and on his advice, it proved possible to get the patient evacuated to a neurological center in a period of four months.
The neurologist should be consulted in cases deemed neurotic.
The internist and neurologist should govern the basic treatment.
This is, after all, a very familiar picture to the neurologist accustomed to see patients suffering from functional nervous diseases.
The family doctor called in a neurologist who, after examining the nervous man, spoke seriously of serious possibilities, and advised serious measures.
But the rest-cure which the neurologist prescribed was certainly unique.
The patient who seeks the help of a scientific neurologist hardly becomes a center of psychical contagion, but the church services for the sick offer favorable conditions for an epidemic development of hysterical symptoms.
Our family physicians are still against hypnotism, and if I should go to a neurologist of my own selection, it might be to one who believed still only in nerve foods, baths, or a sanitarium.
As for the results of treatment, every neurologist meets patients again and again who have been "psychoanalyzed" without results.
This type the neurologist calls the congenital neurasthenic, and it may be we are dealing here with some defect in the elimination of fatigue products.
If a neurologist were to have a hysteric paralysis a very interesting problem in diagnosis would be presented.
Among the emotional types well recognized by the neurologistis that known as the cyclothymic.
No organically caused anaesthetic area ever does this, and so the neurologist is able, usually, to separate the two conditions.
For the neurologistboth the cerebral and the sympathetic- endocrinal components of emotion are important.
The records of every neurologist contain many such cases, most of whom recover, but a few go on to severe incurable mental disease.
