Conversion Disorder introduced
- Conversion Disorder introduced
(1795)
The term "conversion" had occasionally been used in humoral medicine in the sense of the complication of a disease or the side effect of a treatment. In 1795, John Ferriar (1763–1815), physician to the Manchester Infirmary and Lunatic Hospital, wrote, "Many cases of conversion produce insanity; this disorder supervenes on the imprudent suppression of eruptions; on the extinction of continued fevers." He remarked upon a case in which a woman became manic as a result of the suppression of her menses. "She continued insane during seven years, and was restored to her senses by an uterine haemorrhage" (Medical Histories and Reflections, 2nd ed., vol. II, p. 120). Elsewhere, Ferriar also described "hysterical conversion," in which the body produces alarming symptoms without real underlying disease.
Edward Shorter.
2014.
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