Nervous and mental diseases . y anesthetic. Bones, muscles, ligaments,and nerve-trunks may sometimes be pierced, twisted, wrenched, andcontused without giving rise to distress or even provoking a localizedsensation of any sort. The muscular sense for a limb may be abolished,so that with bandaged eyes the patient has no knowledge of its position,<jannot estimate weights, recognize pressure, or feel fatigue. 622 NEUROSES. The Special Senses.—Taste and smell may be perverted, dimin-ished, or abohshed. Certain sapid articles may fail to arouse the senseof taste, while others are still detected.
Nervous and mental diseases . y anesthetic. Bones, muscles, ligaments,and nerve-trunks may sometimes be pierced, twisted, wrenched, andcontused without giving rise to distress or even provoking a localizedsensation of any sort. The muscular sense for a limb may be abolished,so that with bandaged eyes the patient has no knowledge of its position,<jannot estimate weights, recognize pressure, or feel fatigue. 622 NEUROSES. The Special Senses.—Taste and smell may be perverted, dimin-ished, or abohshed. Certain sapid articles may fail to arouse the senseof taste, while others are still detected. The loss of taste is usuallylimited to a portion of the tongue and mouth. Hearing is often greatlydiminished, but complete hysterical deafness is very ^s test (see p. 65) shows the disturbance to be central. When theloss of hearing is pronounced, one commonly finds more or less anes-thesia in the auditory canal and on the same side of the head and face,but absolute anesthesia of the drumhead is exceptional. ^.
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