Medical and surgical therapy . hangein natural sleep as Duvemay (124), Sicard (129), andourselves have noted; they persist sometimes, as wehave shown, until an advanced stage of chloroformnarcosis ; they are as persistent and fixed as the con-tractures associated with lesions of the nerve , the diagnosis of reflex contracture had not evenbeen .considered in the writings with which we havejust dealt. The facts in question, therefore, do notjustify us in concluding that hysterical contractureproperly so called behaves differently from a voluntarypseudo-contracture. Vertebral curvature
Medical and surgical therapy . hangein natural sleep as Duvemay (124), Sicard (129), andourselves have noted; they persist sometimes, as wehave shown, until an advanced stage of chloroformnarcosis ; they are as persistent and fixed as the con-tractures associated with lesions of the nerve , the diagnosis of reflex contracture had not evenbeen .considered in the writings with which we havejust dealt. The facts in question, therefore, do notjustify us in concluding that hysterical contractureproperly so called behaves differently from a voluntarypseudo-contracture. Vertebral curvature.—-Following traumatism of theback and loins, as well as after commotion due to theexplosion of large shells, one may observe curvatureof the trunk (simple kyphosis or kypho-scoliosis), SYMPTOMATOLOGY 467 which has been described by one of the fcdlowing terms :* vertelDral curvature/ vertebral antalgic attitudes *(Sicard) (83), traumatic kyphosis, spondyUtis, contracture of the abdominal muscles, and campto-cormia (Souques)..
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