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On Mental Auto-infection
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 February 2018
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In popular estimation there is no surer relief from itching than by scratching. The lower classes have no better remedy for anger than cursing. The more educated indulge in reproaches and complaints often referring to other causes than the immediate source of irritation. Experience, however, has taught us that, in only too many instances, the practices thus indulged in are positively deleterious; and that abnormal feeling is further aggravated by giving way to these impulses of reflex action. Still, there is a momentary relief, and a feeling of comfort which in a great number of cases is all that can be expected by the physician.
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- Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1897
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