Lloyd Jones, "Chlorosis: The Special Anaemia of Young Women,"
1897; also numerous reports to the British Medical Association,
published in the _British Medical Journal_. There was an
interesting discussion of the theories of chlorosis at the Moscow
International Medical Congress, in 1898; see proceedings of the
congress, volume in, section v, pp. 224 et seq.).
We may thus, perhaps, understand why it is that hysteria and
anaemia are often combined, and why they are both most frequently
found in adolescent young women who have yet had no sexual
experiences. Chlorosis is a physical phenomenon; hysteria,
largely a psychic phenomenon; yet, both alike may, to some extent
at least, be regarded as sexual aptitude showing itself in
extreme and pathological forms.
FOOTNOTES:
[251] _Genese et Nature de l'Hysterie_, 1898; and, for Sollier's latest
statement, see "Hysterie et Sommeil," _Archives de Neurologie_, May and
June, 1907. Lombroso (_L'Uomo Delinquente_, 1889, vol. ii, p. 329),
referring to the diminished metabolism of the hysterical, had already
compared them to hibernating animals, while Babinsky states that the
hysterical are in a state of subconsciousness, a state, as Metchnikoff
remarks (_Essais optimistes_, p. 270), reminiscent of our prehistoric
past.
[252] Professor Freud, while welcoming the introduction of the term
"auto-erotism," remarks that it should not be made to include the whole of
hysteria.
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