The Ephemerides
records a case in which there was the sense of two objects from a
single touch on the hypochondrium. Weir Mitchell remarks that
soldiers often misplace the location of pain after injuries in
battle. He also mentions several cases of wrong reference of the
sensation of pain. These instances cannot be called reflex
disturbances, and are most interesting. In one case the patient
felt the pain from a urethral injection in gonorrhea, on the top
of the head. In another an individual let an omnibus-window fall
on his finger, causing but brief pain in the finger, but violent
pains in the face and neck of that side. Mitchell also mentions a
naturalist of distinction who had a small mole on one leg which,
if roughly rubbed or pinched, invariably seemed to cause a sharp
pain in the chin.
Nostalgia is the name generally given to that variety of
melancholia in which there is an intense longing for home or
country. This subject has apparently been overlooked in recent
years, but in the olden times it was extensively discussed.
Swinger, Harderus, Tackius, Guerbois, Hueber, Therrin,
Castellanau, Pauquet, and others have written extensively upon
this theme. It is said that the inhabitants of cold countries,
such as the Laplanders and the Danes, are the most susceptible to
this malady.
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