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Excerpt from Hysteria Neurasthenia
This want of precise and intimate knowledge of the inner workings of the disease must render unsatisfactory any attempt at an accurate defini tion of hysteria. Its chief features will appear when we come to discuss the symptoms mean while it may be said that hysteria is not to be used as a term under which cases presenting various ill-defined symptoms of nervous disorder may be conveniently classed. The work of recent years, and especially the labours of Charcot and the French school, have tended to crystallise the vague notions of the disease into a more definite form, and to establish certain positive symptoms as characteristic of it. Um fortunately these positive signs are not invariably present, and there must always occur cases in which it is difficult to say whether they should be assigned to hysteria or not.
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