Medical and surgical therapy . Fig. 5.—Hysterical club-foot, causedby exposure to cold. Fig. 6. -Post-traumatic hystericalcontracture. LIMITED PARALYSES AND CONTRACTURES 737 of the cervical region. Pain is not produced by-pressure on the spinous processes or by percussingthe skull, but rather by palpation of the contractedmuscles. The complete integrity of the cervicalcolumn will definitely exclude Potts Disease. With regard to meningitis, in face of the absenceof the ordinary series of meningeal symptoms, it isdifficult to see how mistakes could be made. There is greater difficulty in differe
Medical and surgical therapy . Fig. 5.—Hysterical club-foot, causedby exposure to cold. Fig. 6. -Post-traumatic hystericalcontracture. LIMITED PARALYSES AND CONTRACTURES 737 of the cervical region. Pain is not produced by-pressure on the spinous processes or by percussingthe skull, but rather by palpation of the contractedmuscles. The complete integrity of the cervicalcolumn will definitely exclude Potts Disease. With regard to meningitis, in face of the absenceof the ordinary series of meningeal symptoms, it isdifficult to see how mistakes could be made. There is greater difficulty in differentiating fromabortive or limited tetanus-. In one case recordedby Claude and Lhermitte, there was absolute rigidityof the muscles of the back of the neck and the patient,not having received any wound, was put down asa neuropathic subject and as such was sent to theNeurological Centre at Bourges. But in contra-distinction to cases of psychoneurotic contracture,his bone and tendon reflexes were profoundly of
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