Excerpt from Hysteria: Six Lectures Delivered to the Students of St. Bartholomew"s Hospital, 1866

The following Lectures were delivered to the Students of St. Bartholomew"s Hospital, and they are now published at their request and for their instruction.

If any Members of older growth fail in knowledge of matters so essential as those I have discussed, however unskilfully I may have treated them, the sooner they enter on the path of inquiry the better.

It is in the nature of scientific inquiry to intermingle error with truth. Our faculties, however cultivated, cannot penetrate the recesses in which are concealed the more precious gems of perfect knowledge, the value and even the nature of which are variously appreciated by different observers. Hence opposite deductions and contradictory opinions.

The majority of our profession are biassed in favor of depletive measures. They consider diseases to originate in excess of vitality, and to be the product of undue force, I have endeavored to show that they far more commonly arise from reduced or exhausted power. A weak condition of the animal body is intelligible enough, but an abnormal condition warranting a reduction of vital power by artificial agency I cannot understand.

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