A treatise on hysterical affections / by George Tate.

  • Tate, George.
Date:
1858
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    in the least changed. This story struck me as being a strange history of disease of the hip-joint, and led me to make a further inquiry. The following circumstances then transpired. About twelve months ago, slie was very Hysterical, and had dreadful pains in her back, which were sup- posed to arise from a disease of the spine. The catamenia were then very irregular, and attended with much pain. This had continued to the present time. She had, all aloug, complained of pain under the left breast, and sometimes in the right side, which felt as if a knife were piercing her. She had been subject to palpitations, which were now very distressing. She had tremendous head- aches, and was sometimes, at night, delii'ious. She had intolerance of light, and the room was darkened accordingly; she had globus and dys- pnoea; Hysterical feelings without number, and a most capricious state of mind. Notwithstanding all this, the doctors could see nothing but disease of the hip-joint; yet there was no decisive or obvious mark of disease,—no swelling or puffing about the hip,—no increase of pain upon pressure^ —and, as well as could be ascertained by their measurement, in the position in which she was lying, there was no difference in the length of the hmbs. To make the case more apparent, there was now a simdar contraction of the other thio-h and a similar pain m the other limb. She nmv also complained of pain in her spine, which she said, was like the flesh being torn away from the bone. This catalogue of circumstances combined