HYSTERIA

is a condition in which ideas react on the bodily functions to their detriment. Young girls at pubert are most often attacked, but after a serious accident aad a8 a railway collision it may attack adult men. The Latin races aro more susceptible than the Anglo-Saxon. The condition is e entially one in which the emotional part of tho mind is allowed to overbalance tho will and the judgment. The effect on the body is often most curious; for instance, fits, paralysis, spasms, pain, hiccough, lo of voice, frequent cough, refusal of food, flatulence, scanty urine, symptoms of joint disease, rises of temperature, and very rapid or very slow pulse rate may each be due to hysteria. The affection may be guarded against by bringing up children healthily and properly, giving them abundant fresh air and food, avoiding overwork and teaching them self-control from infancy. The recognition of the above symptoms as hysterical and their proper treatment require medical skill, and so closely aro roal diseases often simulated that great discrimination is nece ary. ICE is frequently used as a means of applying cold for the relief of pain or the reduction of inflammation or the arrest of Sart It may bo broken into fragment a by means of a and a Ratt and it lasts much long or if not allowed to stand in its own water. Ice bags may be extemporised by using mackintosh sponge bags. In opplying them care must be taken that they are secured in t Sear the doctor orders. Ice should be used internally with great moderation or indigestion and depre ion of the heart result. [s. 374]