Excerpt from Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Vol. 108: September, 1914 Case 1 girl of 20 years was referred by Dr. Watkins and Dr. Stavely because of recurrences of right iliac pain with nausea and vomiting, but with normal temperature and pulse, since three months. Two months before, the appendix had been removed for similar symptoms, and found little changed, though contain ing a concretion of lime. At the time, the ovaries and gallbladder were found normal. The pains recurred every few days and lasted some hours, and were relieved by morphine or the Scotch douch. Examination showed only a psychogenic hyperesthesia in the right iliac fossa, controllable by indirect suggestion. Some colonic atonia, a slight retroversion and intestinal sand could not explain a manifestly psychogenic tenderness. So, after a few days, Dr. Watkins, armed by conviction derived from the consul tation, entered the fray, and after a struggle of nearly two hours convinced the young woman that determination to conquer a longing for the comforting and anodynes which sickness brings would cure her. She went back to Illinois next day, and remains well. Such rapid success is not common. The following similar case illustrates the need of persistence in persuasion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.