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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    CHAPTER II. CASES OP HYSTEEIA, BEING A SEQUEL TO THE pabk FOBEGOIKG PAPER .... 29 CASK 17. Hysteria ; paraplegia of five years', aplionia of two years', and paralysis of the ai'nis of eighteen months' duration, rapidly cured by the faradic current 31 18. Hysteria; periodical fits, during which the patient repeated with volubility the conversations she had heard during the intervals 34 [12. Hysterical aphonia (?) and dyspnoea; tracheotomy with per- foration of pleura and death from pneumothorax, etc. 22 and 35] 19. Hysteria; functional, inspiratory dyspnoea and stridor, with loss of taste and anaesthesia 36 CHAPTER III. ON THE FUNCTIONAL VOMITING OF HYSTERIA • 20. Hysterical vomiting 21. Hysterical vomiting . 22. Occasional spasm of the oesophagus, and occasional delay of matters in that tube 23. Spasmodic stricture of oesophagus cured by passing a bougie 24. Dilatation of the oesophagus, with persistent vomiting. Death Autopsy 25. Hysterical vomiting due to sj^asm of lower end of oesophagus Cure CHAPTER IV. 40 40 40 42 42 44 47 ON A PECULIAR FORM OF CHOKING, CAUSED MAINLY BY SWALLOWING FLUIDS . . . .53 26. Gangrenous cavity behind the root of the lung, opening into the left bronchus and oesophagus ; choking. Death. Autopsy 53 27. Paralysis of arytenoid mviscle, etc., with choking when swallow- ing fluids 57 [115. Alcoholic miiltiple neiiritis with paralysis of diaphragm, and difficulty in swallowing fluids. Partial recovery 59 (and 357)] CHAPTER V. CASES OF FUNCTIONAL NERVOUS DISORDER, IN WHICH THERE WERE OPHTHALMOPLEGIA EXTERNA, HEMI- PLEGIA, HEMIANESTHESIA, HIGH TEMPERATURE, EPILEPTIFORM FITS, ETC. 61 28. Graves's disease, followed by ophthalmoplegia externa, right hemianaesthesia (involving organs of special sense), head- ache, sickness, and persistent high temperature, and subse-