Nervous and mental diseases . Fig. 260.—Lateral arc de cercle (Richer). Hon, in which some rigidity may, however, persist. Stertor and froth-ing saliva may appear, and sometimes general twitchings or sharp spasms HYSTERIA. 617 may still agitate the patient at intervals. The pupil may not respondto light. 3. The Period of Clownism.—After the phase of resolution of theepileptoid period has lasted a short time, the second period develops. Itis made up of two phases,—(a) a phase of contortions, or illogical atti-tudes, and (b) a phase of wide-ranged, or grand, movements. The con-tortions of the fi


Nervous and mental diseases . Fig. 260.—Lateral arc de cercle (Richer). Hon, in which some rigidity may, however, persist. Stertor and froth-ing saliva may appear, and sometimes general twitchings or sharp spasms HYSTERIA. 617 may still agitate the patient at intervals. The pupil may not respondto light. 3. The Period of Clownism.—After the phase of resolution of theepileptoid period has lasted a short time, the second period develops. Itis made up of two phases,—(a) a phase of contortions, or illogical atti-tudes, and (b) a phase of wide-ranged, or grand, movements. The con-tortions of the first phase are usually steadily maintained for severalminutes, thereby varying essentially from the grand movements of the.


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