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ON THE CURABILITY OF CERTAIN FORMS OF INSANITY, EPILEPSY, CATALEPSY, AND HYSTERIA IN FEMALES.
BY
BAKER BROWN, F.R.C.S. (Exam.)
SENIOR SURGEON TO THE LONDON SURGICAL HOME;
LATE SURGEON-ACCOUCHEUR TO, AND LECTURER ON MIDWIFERY AND DISEASES OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN AT, ST. MARY’S HOSPITAL;
LATE CONSULTING SURGEON TO THE WESTBOURNE DISPENSARY AND PADDINGTON LYING-IN CHARITY;
PRESIDENT OF THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON;
FELLOW OF THE OBSTETRICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON;
MEMBER OF THE HARVEIAN SOCIETY;
CORRESPONDING FELLOW OF THE OBSTETRICAL SOCIETY OF BERLIN;
HON. FELLOW OF THE GENERAL ASSOCIATION OF SURGEONS, NORTHERN GERMANY;
MEMBER OF THE BROOKLYN MEDICAL AND SURGICAL SOCIETY;
CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE OF PESTH;
CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE OF BRUSSELS;
CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE PHYSIO-MEDICAL AND STATISTICAL SOCIETY OF MILAN;
HON. CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF NORWAY, ETC.
LONDON:
ROBERT HARDWICKE, 192, PICCADILLY, W.
1866.
COX AND WYMAN,
ORIENTAL, CLASSICAL, AND GENERAL PRINTERS,
GREAT QUEEN STREET, W.C.
TO DR. E. BROWN-SÉQUARD. F.R.S., &c.
Dear Dr. Brown-Séquard,
I am deeply indebted for your kind permissionto dedicate this work to you. I feel assured that itsintroduction to the Profession under the auspices of the greatestphysiologist of the day will secure for it greater consideration,and lead to a closer examination of its contents, than wouldotherwise have been the case.
With the greatest respect, believe me to be,
Most faithfully yours,
I. BAKER BROWN.
17, Connaught Square, Hyde Park, W.
March, 1866.
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PREFACE.
In offering this little book to my professionalbrethren, I do not for one momentwish it to be understood that I claim anyoriginality in the surgical treatm
