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and patience. Professor Kraft-Ebing of Vienna,
the famous author of ‘Psychopathia Sexualis,’
was also constantly sending me patients of both
sexes and of no sex, all more or less difficult to
handle, specially the women. To my great
surprise and satisfaction I had also been attending
of late a good many patients with various nervous
disorders, undoubtedly addressed to me by the
master of the Salpêtrière, though never with a
word in writing. Many of these patients were
ill defined border-cases, more or less irresponsible
for their acts. Some were nothing less than
disguised lunatics, up to anything. It is easy
to be patient with lunatics, I confess to a
sneaking liking for them. With a little kindness one
comes to terms with most of them as often as
not. But it is not easy to be patient with
hysterical women, and as to being kind to them,
one had better think it over twice before being
too kind to them, they ask for nothing better.
As a rule you can do but little for these patients,
at least outside the hospital. You can stun
their nerve centres with sedatives but you cannot
cure them. They remain what they are, a
bewildering complex of mental and physical
disorders, a plague to themselves and to their
families, a curse to their doctors. Hypnotic
treatment, so beneficial in many hitherto
incurable mental troubles, is as a rule
contraindicated in the treatment of hysterical women
of all ages, hysteria has no age limit. It should
in any case be limited to Charcot’s suggestion à
l’état de veille. It is besides unnecessary, for
these helpless women are in any case already too
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