Migraine and other common neuroses : a psychological study / by F.G. Crookshank.
- Francis Graham Crookshank
- Date:
- 1926
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Migraine and other common neuroses : a psychological study / by F.G. Crookshank. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![long discarded as inadequate by those whose business it is to occupy them¬ selves with philosophy. Thus it is that many of our so-called advances in medicine are not so much the result of advances in actual discovery as expressions of a change of attitude towards the fundamental problems of life : a change of attitude that follows in the wake of metaphysical and philosophic thought. Considerations of this sort may not seem very relevant to questions of technique : as to, for example, whether a leg should be amputated by a circular or a flap method, and so forth. But thev do become of extreme importance when we have to decide whether or no a patient with ‘ colitis ’ should be treated by laparotomy or by psychological methods. The man who holds one set of views will plump for appendicostomy, and will refuse to admit that psycho¬ logical treatment can be useful : the man who holds to another will desire to postpone treatment by surgery until psychological treatment has been [18]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29813256_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
