"Weak back" 1 case
"Sciatic trouble" 1 case
"Chest and throat trouble" 1 case
"Blindness" 1 case
"Bowel trouble" 1 case
"Heart trouble" 1 case
Total 72 cases
GROUP II--APPARENTLY ORGANIC DISEASES.
"Tuberculosis of bowels" 1 case
"Seventeen bruises, cuts and breaks" 1 case
Insanity 1 case
Locomotor ataxia 1 case
Loose elbow-joint 1 case
Necrosis of the jaw 1 case
Rupture 1 case
Total 7 cases
GROUP III--PROBABLY FUNCTIONAL DISORDERS.
"Lost use of the right limb" 1 case
"What seemed to be a malignant sore on the
face" 1 case
"Strangely obstinate malady of 20 years'
standing" 1 case
"An incurable disease" 1 case
"Serious abdominal trouble" 1 case
"Lung, spinal and hip trouble" (wore dark
glasses 20 years) 1 case
"Catarrhal, bowel and rheumatic trouble" 1 case
"Internal disorder of 15 years' standing" 1 case
"Heart, ovarian, and serious nervous
troubles" (8 years) 1 case
"Debility, constipation, gout, piles, and
prolapsus" 1 case
"Bright's disease, liver and lung complaint,
and other ailments too numerous to
mention" 1 case
Total 11 cases
Of the second group, that of cases of apparently organic disease, the
case of insanity was taken out of an insane asylum by Christian
Science friends, but apparently is still insane; the diseased jaw
slowly recovered, as such cases sometimes do, without any treatment.
The same is very possibly true of the case of tuberculosis of the
bowels (peritoneum), though the diagnosis is not certain. The cuts,
bruises, and breaks healed rather slowly under ordinary surgical
treatment in a hospital. Of the locomotor ataxia, the rupture, and the
loose elbow-joint, nothing more can be said without knowing whether
the diagnoses were correct--a point on which no opinion can be formed,
owing to the scantiness of the facts rec
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