50 Emotional repression as a factor in hysteria, 40 Enema, The use of the, 69 Energy from food, 58 Epilepsy a functional disease, 2 ——­, Ancient remedies for, 86 ——­ as a mental complex, 23 ——­ ascribed to demonic influence, 1, 2 ——­, Biblical reference to, 2 ——­, Causes of, 20-24 ——­, Clinical course of, 15-19 ——­, Cure in, 19 ——­, Definition of, 1, 19 ——­, Effect of, on general health, 16 ——­, Feigned, 14 ——­, ——­, Diagnosis of, 14 ——­, Historical account of, 1, 2 ——­ in mediaeval times, 2 ——­ in neurasthenics, 35 ——­ in relation to genius, 125-127 ——­ ——­ marriage, 131 ——­, Jacksonian, 7-9 ——­, ——­, its relative frequency, 15 ——­, Major and minor, 1-6 ——­, Medicines for, 86-89 ——­, Mental, 9, 10 ——­, ——­, Rarity of, 15 ——­, Nocturnal, 4, 5 ——­, ——­, its relative frequency, 15 ——­, Preventive treatment of, 25-27 ——­, Prognosis in, 19 ——­, Psychic, 9, 10 ——­, Rarer types of, 7-16 ——­, Serial, 7 ——­, Superstitions attached to, 1, 2 Epileptic children, Care of, 16 ——­ dementia, 16 ——­ fit See “Fit” ——­ fits, Times of occurrence of, 15, 23 Epileptiform seizures, 13 Exercise for neuropaths, 48, 74, 75 Eyes, Care of the, 53

FACIAL expression in epilepsy, 17 Fats, Digestion of, 57 Fears, Baseless, in neurasthenia, 35, 36 Feeding, Generous, needed for neuropaths, 47 Fit, Epileptic, Description of an, 3, 4 ——­, ——­, Mechanism of an, 20, 21 ——­, ——­, First-aid to victims of, 28, 29 Flatulence, Treatment of, 70 Foods, Proprietary, 94, 95 “Free will”, The fallacy of, 124, 125 Freud on perverted sex-ideas as a cause of hysteria, 40 ——­ ——­ subconscious sexual desires in infants, 113 ——­ ——­ the sex-basis in dreams, 12 Fright as cause of epilepsy, 21

GASTRIC Juice, The, 56 Genius, Epilepsy in relation to, 125-127 “Germ-plasm”, The, 118 ——­ in relation to neuropathic tendencies, 120, 121, 124 Globus hystericus, 42 Glycerin suppositories, 69 Glycerophosphates, 96 “Good” and “Evil”, 123, 124 Gowers on epilepsy, 7 Gowers’ statistics as to age-incidence of epilepsy, 17 Grand mal, 2-5 ——­ ——­, its relative frequency, 15 Greene on hysteria, 44

  HABIT, Importance of, in relation to constipation, 68
  Haig on relation of uric acid to epilepsy, 23
  Headache in neurasthenia, 32
  Heredity, 118-122
  Hobbies for neuropaths, 48
  Hormone, The Function of a, 57
  Hughlings Jackson, Dr, on the epileptic convulsion, 8
  Husband of a neuropath, Advice to the, 138, 139
  Huxley on the rules of the game of life, 46
  Hygiene, General, 71-75
  Hypochondriasis in neurasthenics, 36
  Hypophosphites, 96
  Hysteria, 39-45
  ——­, Age incidence of, 41
  ——­, Ancient views as to, 39
  ——­ and neurasthenia contrasted, 41
  ——­ Causes of, 40, 41
  ——­, Modern theories as to, 39
  ——­, Race incidence of, 42
  ——­, Sex-incidence of, 39, 41
  ——­, Symptoms of, 42-44
  ——­, Treatment of, 44
  Hysterical attack, The, 42, 43