Hysteria
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Silas Weir Mitchell typescripts
Item — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 424
Overview
1) A case of uncomplicated hysteria in the male, 1904; 2) Two letters to Dr. Osler concerning his book on science and immortality, 1904; and 3) Address to the American Neurological Association by the President, S. Weir Mitchell, 1909.
Previously catalogued as 10a 195.
Previously catalogued as 10a 195.
Dates:
1904; 1909
William S. Playfair portraits of cases of rest treatment
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 2/001
Scope and Contents
Before-and-after photographs of six female patients of W. S. Playfair who had undergone rest-cure treatment for hysteria and neurasthenia. Treatment included seclusion and rest, massage, electricity, and regimented diet. According to donor, S. Weir Mitchell, Playfair exhibited either the cases or, more probably, the photographs to British Medical Association. Playfair did describe four cases of this type to the Medical Section of British Medical Association, Worcester, England, 9 Aug. 1882....
Dates:
circa 1880s
