. Medical and surgical therapy. s or tendon reflexes, the absence ofany real modification such as abolition or exaggera-tion with epileptiform trepidation, showing a dis-turbance of the reflex arc. One too often finds thata physician not specially trained in neurology willattach importance to a certain degree of brisknessof the tendon reflexes : exaggerated reflexes,plantar hyperaesthesia is often found on the case-sheets, signs which simply indicate a nervous ex-citability common in neuropathic subjects. Needlessto say, such statements have a bad effect on thepatient. It is hardly necess
. Medical and surgical therapy. s or tendon reflexes, the absence ofany real modification such as abolition or exaggera-tion with epileptiform trepidation, showing a dis-turbance of the reflex arc. One too often finds thata physician not specially trained in neurology willattach importance to a certain degree of brisknessof the tendon reflexes : exaggerated reflexes,plantar hyperaesthesia is often found on the case-sheets, signs which simply indicate a nervous ex-citability common in neuropathic subjects. Needlessto say, such statements have a bad effect on thepatient. It is hardly necessary to mention that under nocircumstances must a search for supposed stigmataof past hysteria be made, for this might entail theestablishment of fresh neuropathic manifestations inpatients so extremely sensitive to suggestion. (6) The Rapid or Immediate Curability of themorbid condition, lastly, is of great value in differ-ential diagnosis. Every case of tremor, tic, orchoreiform movement which yields to psychotherapy Plate
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