On the simulation on hysteria by organic disease of the nervous system.

  • Buzzard, Thomas.
Date:
1891
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Credit: On the simulation on hysteria by organic disease of the nervous system. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    presence of chilblains. But the difficulty con- tinued and only increased as time went on. It appeared that in the winter of 1876-77 she had undergone great fatigue in rinking, and it was not long after this that she had begun to feel unduly tired in walking. I found on examination that those muscles of the lower extremities the condition of which it was possible to examine by the eye, and by electrical testing, were well developed, and that the only defect in miovement was in the action of the ilio-psoas group. There appeared to be absolutely no power of flexing the thigh upon the knee, all the other movements being well performed. The knee jerks were normal. The patient was sent to bed, fed, rubbed, and fired in the lower dorsal region of the spine, but without any effect. In December 1883 she could still walk, but required first to be set upon her feet. I learned last year that she had lost all power of movement in her lower extremities. There was no wasting of the limbs, which were sound and indeed unduly firm. Case 3.—Last year a sister of this patient, aet, twenty-eight, was brought to me suffering