{"id":8972,"date":"2006-03-14T16:58:53","date_gmt":"2006-03-14T23:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/03\/14\/vickipedia.html"},"modified":"2006-03-14T16:58:53","modified_gmt":"2006-03-14T23:58:53","slug":"vickipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/14\/vickipedia.html","title":{"rendered":"Vickipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vickipedia<\/a> is a project by someone who obtained an 1888 encyclopedia, and is now transcribing individual entries online on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

Today’s entry? Hysteria<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During the fit, the treatment to be adopted is to prevent the patient from injuring herself, to loosen her dress, and to admit an abundance of fresh cool air; to dash cold water upon the face and chest; and, if she can swallow, to administer a couple of ounces of the asaf\u0153tida mixture, or a drachm of the ammoniated tincture of valerian in a wine-glass of water.<\/p>\n

After the paroxysm is over, the patient should have an active purge, and the bowels should be kept properly open by aloetic aperients; and the shower-bath, preparations of iron, and tonic treatment generally should be adopted, and all abnormal bodily and mental excite\u00adment, such as late parties in hot rooms, novel-reading, &c., care\u00adfully avoided.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, gotta watch out for that novel-reading. I usually have to bodily restrain Margie after she’s been doing that … for her own good, mind you …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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