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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![This is the method. We must, in the first place, institute a complete physical examination, appraising the disorder of function manifestly present, and then estimating, so far as is possible, the organic change in the organs that are not functioning well. This is, or should be, the normal clinical procedure. But something more is wanted. We must form some idea of the original efficiency of the organ or structure in respect of which complaint is made. We then find, for example, that the migrainous and the neuralgic persons have usually some facial asymmetry, or some morpho¬ logical defect : the asthmatics have imperfectly developed nares, epiglot- tides and larynges, and, if we dissect them, not only poor chests, but lungs that are imperfectly developed qua lobes. Our tinnitus and vertigo patients have poor external ears : our dyspeptics, dilated or ptotic stomachs : our cardiac cases small and pendent, or large and pushed-up hearts : our hypochondriacs and our colitis cases have long mesenteries, mobile colons, [34 ]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29813256_0040.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
