. Hysteria and certain allied conditions, their nature and treatment, with special reference to the application of the rest cure, massage, electrotherapy, hypnotism, etc. f total hysterical anesthesia in a male subject. §Most frequently hysterical anesthesia appears inpatches—disseminated anesthesia. Sometimes theseareas are symmetrically disposed, but more fre-quently they are scattered irregularly over the body,having no definite shape and varying greatly insize. Occasionally one finds a single spot of anes-thesia of small size, and it is to be noted that thisvariety of anesthesia is usually
. Hysteria and certain allied conditions, their nature and treatment, with special reference to the application of the rest cure, massage, electrotherapy, hypnotism, etc. f total hysterical anesthesia in a male subject. §Most frequently hysterical anesthesia appears inpatches—disseminated anesthesia. Sometimes theseareas are symmetrically disposed, but more fre-quently they are scattered irregularly over the body,having no definite shape and varying greatly insize. Occasionally one finds a single spot of anes-thesia of small size, and it is to be noted that thisvariety of anesthesia is usually very intractable. Ina case under treatment at present there is ananesthetic patch, not as large as the palm of the hand,on the outer aspect of the left thigh, which haspersisted for more than a year. Not infrequentlypart of one or more limbs may be involved, the * Am. Jour. Med. Set., 1890. f Loc. cit. \ Traite Clinique et Therapeutique de LHysteric\ Trans. Amer. Neurolog. Assoc.,1895. SYMPTOMATOLOGY. 67 anesthesia taking the shape of a stocking or longglove. An arm and leg on the same side may beaffected, or an arm on one side and the leg of theopposite Fig. 1 —Disseminated Anesthesia. The most characteristic variety of hysterical anes-thesia is hemianesthesia, and this form is seen nearlyas often as all the other varieties taken hemianesthesia divides the body into two 68 HYSTERIA : ITS NATURE AND TREATMENT. equal parts by a vertical plane passing through themiddle line, one-half being normal, the other anes-thetic. The dividing; line is drawn with the utmost accur-hysteriacertaina1897pres
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