the patient came to me and told me that the patient while washing his face in the morning fell down suddenly insensible and was getting fits. A young homoeopathic practitioner was treating him for hysteria without any abatement of the symptoms, consequently he had come to me for some medicines which might cure the hysterical fits. Having been previously, though only partially, informed as to th...

A woman in the care of the author 40 years ago was reported to have been sleeping for 2 days. We treated her condition as conversion hysteria. Her private psychiatrist was the renowned R. D. Laing; he was unhappy with our line of management, on the grounds of the arbitrariness of the diagnosis, the labelling of the woman with a diagnosis of hysteria and the treatment of the patient without her ...

A recent paper published in Nature Nanotechnology (Poland et al 2008) has been receiving a lot of attention. The paper details a study in which carbon nanotubes were injected into the mesothelial lining of the chest cavity of mice and concludes that multiwalled carbon nanotubes longer than 15 microns cause asbestos-like, length-dependent, pathogenic behavior (including infl ammation and the for...

interesting manner, that one gains pleasure as well as profit from reading them. Those who are not already acquainted with .the author's views should procure this book, which presents them mcst lucidly, and at moderate length. Professor Janet's work has done much to elucidate hysteria by a process of analysis of the psychical phenomena which lie at its root. We may remind our readers that accor...