The major symptoms of hysteria : fifteen lectures given in the Medical School of Harvard University [between the fifteenth of October and the end of November, 1906] / by Pierre Janet.

  • Janet, Pierre, 1859-1947.
Date:
1907
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    of the thighs on their internal face, but affects the anus and the genitals. On this distribution of the insensi- bilities and on the places of the reserved regions is founded the anatomic diagnosis of the lesions of the nerves and of the tumours of the medulla. But it is Fig. 10. — Cutaneous territories of the peripheric nerves in the right arm. A, anterior face; P, posterior face. (See Dejerine, Semiologie du Sys- teme nerveux, in Traite' de Pathologie Generate, V, p. 952.) not possible to connect the forms of anesthesias we just observed in the hysteric paralyses with these forms given by the organic lesions. This difficulty of localization was so great that Briquet tried to make other hypotheses and asked himself whether the distribution of hysteric anesthesias did not depend on the vascular circumscriptions, on the cir-