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See also:HYPOCHONDRIASIS (synonyms— " the See also:spleen," " the vapours ") , a medical See also:term (from re viroXovhpcov, ra inroXovepta, the soft See also:part of the See also:body immediately under the Xovepos or See also:cartilage of the See also:breast-See also:bone) given by the ancients,and indeed by physicians down to the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Cullen, to diseases or derangements of one or more of the abdominal viscera. Cullen (Clinical Lectures, 1777) classified it amongst See also:nervous diseases, and See also:Jean See also:Pierre Falret (1794–1870) more fully described it as a morbid See also:condition of the nervous See also:system characterized by depression of feeling and false beliefs as to an impaired See also:state of the See also:health. The subjects of hypochondriasis are for the most part members of families in which hereditary predisposition to degradation of the nervous system is strong, or those who have suffered from morbid influences affecting this system during the earlier years of See also:life. It may be dependent on depressing disease affecting the See also:general system, but under such circumstances it is generally so complicated with the symptoms of See also:hysteria as to render differentiation difficult (see HYSTERIA). Hypochondriasis is often handed down from one See also:generation to another in its individual See also:form, but it is also not unfrequently to be met with in an individual as the See also:sole manifestation in him of a See also:family tendency to See also:insanity. In its most See also:common form it is manifested by See also:simple false belief as to the state of the health, the See also:intellect being other-See also:wise unaffected. We may instance the " vapourish " woman or the " splenetic " as terms society has applied to its milder manifestations. Such persons are constantly asserting a weak state of health although no palpable cause can be discovered. In its more definite phases See also:pain or uneasy sensations are referred by the patient to some particular region, generally the See also:abdomen, the See also:heart or the See also:head. That these are subjective is apparent from the fact that the general health is See also:good: all the functions of the various systems are duly performed; the patient eats and sleeps well; and, when any circumstance temporarily overrides the false belief, he is happy and comfortable. No See also:appeal to the See also:reason is of any avail, and the hypochondriac See also:idea so dominates his existence as to render him unable to perform the See also:ordinary duties of life. In its most aggravated form hypochondriasis amounts to actual insanity, delusions arising as to the existence of living creatures in the intestines or See also:brain, or to the effect that the body is materially changed; e.g. into See also:glass, See also:wood, &c. The symptoms of this condition may be remittent; they may even disappear for years, and only return on the See also:advent of some exciting cause. See also:Suicide is occasionally committed in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape from the See also:constant misery. Recovery can only be looked for by placing the patient under such morally hygienic conditions as may help to turn his mind to other matters.
End of Article: HYPOCHONDRIASIS (synonyms— " the spleen," " the vapours ")
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