turns. Never
suicidal.

General Occasional giddiness; Flushing; convulsions
Symptoms fainting rare; and fainting
convulsions; common; no
headache; backache; symptoms between
sleeplessness; no attacks; local
loss of feeling. anæsthesia or
hyperæsthesia.

Termination Lasts weeks or Lasts lifetime in
months. spasms.
CURABLE. TEMPORARILY
CURABLE.

Hysteria is a disease of youth, usually ceasing at the climacteric. Social,
financial and domestic worries are exciting causes, a happy marriage often
curing, and an unhappy one greatly aggravating the complaint. It is most
common among the races we usually deem "excitable", the Slavs, Latin races
and Jews, and is often associated with anæmia and pelvic disorders.

Symptoms. Changeability of mood is striking. "All is caprice. They love
without measure those they will soon hate without reason."

Sensationalism is manna to them. They _must_ occupy the limelight. Pains
are magnified or manufactured to attract sympathy; they pose as
martyrs--refusing food at table, and eating sweets in their room, or
stealing down to the larder at night--to the same end. If mild measures
fail, then self-mutilation, half-hearted attempts at suicide, and baseless