The psychic treatment of nervous disorders : (the psychoneuroses and their moral treatment) / by Paul Dubois ... ; translated and edited by Smith Ely Jelliffe ... and William A. White.

  • Dubois, Paul, 1848-1918.
Date:
1905
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Credit: The psychic treatment of nervous disorders : (the psychoneuroses and their moral treatment) / by Paul Dubois ... ; translated and edited by Smith Ely Jelliffe ... and William A. White. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PSYCHIC TREATMENT OF NERVOUS DISORDERS CHAPTER I Modern Medicine—Virchow, Pasteur, Lister—Conditions of Thought Thirty Years Ago—Progress of Surgery, Bacteriology—New Orien- tation of Medical Ideas—Neglect of the Neuroses—Hysteria, Briquet, Charcot—The School of Nancy and Hypnotism—Neurasthenia: Its Existence in Former Generations Modern medicine boasts of being scientific, and certainly with reason. The gross empiricism and doctrinal statements of the beginning of the nineteenth century have given place to exact research and the patient study of facts; medicine has become experimental. Often a more progressive person attempts some brilliant synthesis, but his theoretic views are still based on facts that are accepted as established. They are not evolved in the study ; they come from the laboratory, which everywhere, whether it be modest or elaborate, is an indispensable adjunct to the clinic. From physics, chemistry, and even mathematics we have learned methods of work and analytical processes. The allied sciences have furnished us with powerful aids to investigation, by means of which we have been able to study symptoms and make diagnoses with a precision that has been hitherto un- known, so that each day records a new conquest. A brilliant era has already begun under the influence of pathological anatomy. The microscope opens up new horizons and permits the study of the alterations of tissues in their finest details. Cellular pathology has been born, and the name of Virchow marks a date that will never be forgotten in the history of medicine.