Identifier: hysteriacertaina1897pres (find matches)
Title: Hysteria and certain allied conditions, their nature and treatment, with special reference to the application of the rest cure, massage, electrotherapy, hypnotism, etc
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Preston, George J. (George Junkin), b. 1858
Subjects: Hysteria Hysteria
Publisher: Philadelphia, P. Blakiston, son & co.
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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nervous system is brought aboutboth by the stimulation of the peripheral nerves,and also by the change in the caliber of the super-ficial blood-vessels. This latter action is one ofgreat value, for in this manner the circulation isequalized and congestion in internal organs relieved.(3) The action of water in depressing the tempera-ture has been so fully discussed of late that it neednot be mentioned here. There can be no doubt, asBaruch J says, that heat and cold act as powerfulreflexes to the central nervous system. Water being used mainly to apply the principle ofheat and cold to the body, the first point to be ob-served in its application is the range of temperature.As Baruch § has said, there is a wide range in tem-perature, the extremes being, for cold 400 F. and forheat 1 io° F. Beni Barde ;; makes the rather conve-nient classification for practical use as follows: * Therap. Gazette, 1888. f Johns Hopkins Bullet., 1893. % Med. Rec, 1893. \ Loc. at. ;; Hydrotherapies Plate II.
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