Clinical lectures on certain diseases of the nervous system / by J.M. Charcot ; translated by E.P. Hurd.

  • Hurd E. P. (Edward Payson), 1838-1899.
Date:
1888
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    or an hour and a half. It was easy to stop or provoke a fit at will by pressing one of the hysterogenous points which the patient presented. Julie, in fact, possesses certain permanent hysterical stigmata; al- though she has neither cutaneous anaesthesia nor ovaria [ovarialgia], she has numerous hysterical zones, situated opposite each other, on the two breasts, on both flanks (externally), on both calves, and the two external malleoli, and on the internal aspect of the right elbow joint. The examination of the eyes, made by M. Parinaud gives results which are characteristic. There exists, in fact, on the right, a very marked con- traction of the visual field; moreover, not only is the circle of red situated outside of the circle of blue, but it even plainly extends outside of that of the white light. The same phenomena exist on the left side, though less pronounced. The other special senses are intact. Francis, the youngest of the boys, aged eleven years, has also certain permanent stigmata apart from the seizures which I have just described. Thus, on the morning of his admission, we noted an area of an- aesthesia embracing the whole face; this patch was, however, variable, for the following days the insensi- bility was limited to the median region of the fore- head and nose. The rest of the external integument is notably hyperaesthetic. All the special senses are affected; the taste is totally abolished, the insensibility of the tongue is complete, the pharyngeal] reflex [no