. Railway and other accidents with relation to injury and disease of the nervous system : a book for court use . id not extend. They were associated with hypo-chondria, and the condition had lasted for sixteen or eigh-teen years. Case IX.—A personal case occurs, the patient being an hys-terical woman who had been in a railroad wreck and althoughnot injured herself, saw others burned by steam. She developedalmost immediately after the accident a fixed idea that she hadbeen scalded by escaping steam, and for many years would callattention to the tingling and smarting of certain spots which werel
. Railway and other accidents with relation to injury and disease of the nervous system : a book for court use . id not extend. They were associated with hypo-chondria, and the condition had lasted for sixteen or eigh-teen years. Case IX.—A personal case occurs, the patient being an hys-terical woman who had been in a railroad wreck and althoughnot injured herself, saw others burned by steam. She developedalmost immediately after the accident a fixed idea that she hadbeen scalded by escaping steam, and for many years would callattention to the tingling and smarting of certain spots which werelarger than those in Janets patients. Of course she had neverbeen injured at all. There was no tactile loss. Her visual fieldswere contracted, and her left hand and arm anesthetic. Subse-quently neurasthenic symptoms appeared. In certain forms of hysteria the senses of smell, taste,and hearing may become intensely hyperesthetic, certainodors producing great discomfort and the patient beingable to hear high notes of Galtons whistle, which are in-audible to others. Rail WAN AM) A( ( ii)i;.\ PLATE.
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