Fat and blood : an essay on the treatment of certain forms of neurasthenia and hysteria / [S. Weir Mitchell].

  • Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir), 1829-1914.
Date:
1902
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Credit: Fat and blood : an essay on the treatment of certain forms of neurasthenia and hysteria / [S. Weir Mitchell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    beyond the limits originally set by me. It will be well here, however, to state the various dis- orders in which it has seemed to me applicable. As regards some of them, I shall try briefly to indicate why their peculiarities point it out as needful. There are, of course, numerous cases in which it becomes desirable to fatten and to make blood. In manv of them these are easy tasks, and in some altogether hopeless. Persons who are re- covering healthfully from fevers, pneumonias, and other temporary maladies gather flesh and make blood readily, and we need only to help them by the ordinary tonics, careful feeding, and change of air in due season. It may not, however, be out of place to say here that when the convalescence from these maladies seems to be slower than is common, and ordinary tonics inefficient, massage and the use of electricity are not unimportant aids to- wards health, but in such cases require to be handled with an amount of caution which is less requisite in more chronic conditions of dis- ordered health. In other and fatal or graver maladies, such as, for example, advanced pulmonary phthisis, how-