Lectures on nervous diseases from the standpoint of cerebral and spinal localization, and the later methods employed in the diagnosis and treatment of these affections . to recurrence of these attacks is often observed. Among the reported causes of this condition the following may bementioned: Pregnanc3, mental excitement, grief, anxiety, mentaldisease, hysteria, chorea, fevers, narcosis from ether or chloroform, Fig. 126.—A Cataleptic Patient Supported by Head and Feet. (From a sketch made at the time.) These patients can be easily nourished if food is made to pass thefauces. Dea
Lectures on nervous diseases from the standpoint of cerebral and spinal localization, and the later methods employed in the diagnosis and treatment of these affections . to recurrence of these attacks is often observed. Among the reported causes of this condition the following may bementioned: Pregnanc3, mental excitement, grief, anxiety, mentaldisease, hysteria, chorea, fevers, narcosis from ether or chloroform, Fig. 126.—A Cataleptic Patient Supported by Head and Feet. (From a sketch made at the time.) These patients can be easily nourished if food is made to pass thefauces. Death may be simulated during cataleptic attacks; but thehearts beat and respiration can be easil}- detected l\y a careful observer. Catalepsy may be induced in hypnotic subjects by suggesting totheir minds the state of rigidity of the muscles. Charcot has supporteda patient in this state by resting the nape of the neck and the ankles uponthe backs of two chairs placed about five feet apart. I witnessed a sim-ilar condition of muscular rigidity in a cataleptic during m} connectionwith Bellevue Hospital in 1872, and also in another cataleptic subjectduring the winter of 1885. (See Fig. 126.) TREATMENT OF THE HYSTEEICAL STATES. Tlie management of hysteria, hystero-epilepsy, and catalepsy willnow be considered. I would suggest, in the first place, that beforeany medication is begun a thorough search be made for eye-defect
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