Darrell, I suppose it is some sort of coping mechanism for the brain. There is a lot of that happening these days (shell-shock, etc) and back then the world was even more mysterious. Alice -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Darrell A. Martin Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2011 10:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [VERMONT] PLYMOUTH 1/4/1889 On 3/27/2011 11:05 PM, Alice Gordon wrote: > Is that something she would recover from? Alice: Very possibly, if there were no permanent physical damage as a result of moving about on hands and knees. The condition is psychological in origin, there is actually nothing wrong with the body. Freud, who was developing his psychoanalytical practice in Vienna at the time, would have used a "talking cure"; Charcot would have used hypnosis; but the best hope might have been that the condition would go away spontaneously. Darrell *************************************** List Guidelines: http://home.sprynet.com/~darrellm/list_rules.htm Visit the Gateway to Vermont Web Site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vermont/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message