Clinical lectures and essays on diseases of the nervous system / by John Syer Bristowe.

  • Bristowe, John Syer, 1827-1895.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Clinical lectures and essays on diseases of the nervous system / by John Syer Bristowe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

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    CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE ON HYSTERIA AND ITS COUNTERFEIT PRESENTMENTS . 1 CASE 1. Hysterical aphonia; inarticulateness (aphemia); hemianaes- thesia (including loss of taste and smell and colour blind- ness) and fits; chorea ........ 2 2. Hysterical fits in a male; hysterical aphemia .... 6 [31. Aphemia of nine months' duration, in which speech was restored by the education of the organs of articulation . . 7 (and 93)] 3. Chorea in a boy; hysterical fits 8 4. Hysterical squint 10 5. Right facial palsy, with weakness and numbness of opj)osite arm and leg (? hysterical) 10 [29. Functional ophthalmoplegia externa; right hemiplegia; head- ache and sickness, followed by partial right hemianaesthesia, and epileptic fits preceded by prolonged rises of tempera- ture ; chorea during the progress of patient's illness. Re- covery 11 (and 76 and 91)] 6. Hysterical stammering and aphasia 12 7. Hysteria; rhythmical spasmodic movements chiefly on right side ; shifting hemianaesthesia, with persistent colour-blind- ness on right side, and fits attended with incoherent talk . 14 8. Hysterical somnambulism; analgesia, &c. .... 17 9. Epileptic somnambulism ........ 18 10. Hysteria, convulsions, catalepsy, contracture, &c.; intermittent maniacal attacks . 19 11. Epileptic fits terminating in laughter 21 12. Hysterical aphonia (?) and dyspnoea ; tracheotomy, with per- foration of pleura and death from pneumothorax, etc. 22 and 35 13. Hysterical asthma associated with hystero-epilepsy, etc. . . 23 14. Hysterical rapidity of breathing 23 [32. Paroxysmal hurry of heart of some years' duration . 24 (and 105)j 15. Rapid action of heart in enteric fever ..... 25 16. Rapid action of heart in pernicious ana;mia .... 25