. Hysteria and certain allied conditions, their nature and treatment, with special reference to the application of the rest cure, massage, electrotherapy, hypnotism, etc. e male the testicles seem to be abnor-mally sensitive to pressure, and not infrequentlythe seat of pain or disagreeable sensations. Themammary glands often present painful areas, andthere are two distinct painful spots, one justabove, the other below, the gland. These circum-scribed areas of hyperesthesia are known as hys-terogenic zones. The most constant and charac-teristic are the ovarian, the mammary, the supra-and infra-
. Hysteria and certain allied conditions, their nature and treatment, with special reference to the application of the rest cure, massage, electrotherapy, hypnotism, etc. e male the testicles seem to be abnor-mally sensitive to pressure, and not infrequentlythe seat of pain or disagreeable sensations. Themammary glands often present painful areas, andthere are two distinct painful spots, one justabove, the other below, the gland. These circum-scribed areas of hyperesthesia are known as hys-terogenic zones. The most constant and charac-teristic are the ovarian, the mammary, the supra-and infra-mammary, and the spinal. Many otherzones have been described—about the head, throat,scapulae, intercostal region, limbs, mucous mem-branes, etc. ; but the ones mentioned above are themost important. The significance of these hystero-genic zones, as first described by Charcot, is thatlight pressure or rubbing at these spots inducessome hysterical paroxysm, sometimes slight, againsevere, depending upon the nature of the special 92 HYSTERIA: ITS NATURE AND TREATMENT. case. After the induction of the hysterical par-oxysm, forcible and long-continued pressure will in. Fig. 6.—Hysterogenic Zones {anterior many cases cut short the paroxysm. It is interest-ing in this connection to recall the curious proced- SYMPTOMATOLOGY. 93 ures, mentioned in chapter i, which were prevalentin the epidemics of the middle ages : such as tying
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