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has long been a matter of surprise and regret to all thinking men in the profession, that there should be no book in existence that can be called a satisfactory treatise upon the various forms of Hysteria; none in which an attempt has been made to trace the cause of this disorder, and the elements of which it consists; nor any to which the pracWiener can resort, or direct others, with much prospect of useful information.

The apparent neglect in which this important disorder and its serious 'results have remained, does not arise from the paucity of writers; for the field of medical literature has, of late years, swarmed with labourers in almost every department: a fact