A TREATISE ON HYSTERI A. BY ROBERT LEE, M.D., F.R.S. LATE PHYSICIAN TO THE BRITISH LYING-IN HOSPITAL, AND ST. MAKY-LE-BONE INFIRMARY; J. AND A. CHURCHILL, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. 151. m. 188. A TREATISE ON HYSTERIA. ONE of the most rare and characteristic symptoms of hysteric diseases (Trapμoç, sternutatio) has been mentioned by Hippocrates in his xxxv. Aphorism, from which it may be inferred that all the varieties of these diseases had long been well known to the Greeks. Aretæus has thus described hysteric diseases in the eleventh chapter of his works:-"In the middle of the flanks of a woman lies the womb, a female viscus closely resembling an animal, for it is moved of itself hither and thither in the flanks, also upwards in a direct line to below the cartilage of the thorax, and also obliquely to the right or left, either to the liver or spleen; and it is likewise subject to prolapsus downwards-in a word, it is altogether erratic; it delights also in fragrant smells, and advances towards them; and it has an aversion to fœtid smells, and flees from them, and on the whole it is like an animal within an animal." Where therefore it is suddenly carried and remains above for a considerable time, and violently compresses the intestines, the woman ex |