. Railway and other accidents with relation to injury and disease of the nervous system : a book for court use . Various Types of Functional Anesthesia. (Purves Stewart.) ACCIDENT ABOULIA. 73 Aphonia and mutism are found in accident aboulia ofthe hysterical kind, and the latter is most importantand interesting. These disturbances are too often re-garded by the ill informed as symptoms of organic dis-ease, and in some ways resemble the losses due to centralaffections. The aphonia or mutism may follow shortlyafter the accident or appear coincidently with the shock,and last a variable time, or be
. Railway and other accidents with relation to injury and disease of the nervous system : a book for court use . Various Types of Functional Anesthesia. (Purves Stewart.) ACCIDENT ABOULIA. 73 Aphonia and mutism are found in accident aboulia ofthe hysterical kind, and the latter is most importantand interesting. These disturbances are too often re-garded by the ill informed as symptoms of organic dis-ease, and in some ways resemble the losses due to centralaffections. The aphonia or mutism may follow shortlyafter the accident or appear coincidently with the shock,and last a variable time, or be cured by an electrical ap-plication to the vocal cords, or even externally to the , they often disappear when a new and violentmental impression is made, or yield to suggestion. Thefollowing case, which is of unusual interest, may be re-ported somewhat in detail. Case X.—Mrs. H. W , an elderly woman who while waiting to take a street car was so demoralized by the approach and pas-sage of another that she fell to the ground, but with the excep-tion of a slight bruise over the upper and posterior
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