The major symptoms of hysteria : fifteen lectures given in the Medical School of Harvard University [between the fifteenth of October and the end of November, 1906] . Cheyne-Slokes in You know, that about 1816, Cheyne of Dublin andStokes described a certain quite special irregularity ofrespiration, which, to their mind, was characteristic ofthe most serious states. As you see on this table (Figure16), this rhythm is characterized by respiratory pauses;there is a series of ten to fifteen quick breaths, then anarrest of the respiration which may last long, half aminute in some cases;
The major symptoms of hysteria : fifteen lectures given in the Medical School of Harvard University [between the fifteenth of October and the end of November, 1906] . Cheyne-Slokes in You know, that about 1816, Cheyne of Dublin andStokes described a certain quite special irregularity ofrespiration, which, to their mind, was characteristic ofthe most serious states. As you see on this table (Figure16), this rhythm is characterized by respiratory pauses;there is a series of ten to fifteen quick breaths, then anarrest of the respiration which may last long, half aminute in some cases; then the active respiratory seriesbegins again. At the outset, this phenomenon was onlyestablished in cerebral apoplexy, in most forms of agony, 1 F. Raymond ct Pierre Janet, Un cas du rhythme de Cheyne-Stokes dans lhysterie, influence de lactivite cerebrale sur la respira-tion, Com pies rendus du IV congres international de psychologic >tenu a Paris en Aout 1900; 1901, p. 253 254 The Major Symptoms of Hysteria in certain varieties of cerebral tumours. Later on, itwas also found in typhoid fever, in uraemia, in variousintoxications. M. Mosso was the first to generalizethis respiratory rhythm singularly; he showed that itexisted in simple natural sleep when profound, and, ingeneral, in all states of general numbness. At a time when I used to take systematically and withsome exaggeration the graphic of the respiration of allthe hystericals I attended, I was very much astonishedto find with one of them a graphic which exactly pre-sented the rhythm of Cheyne-Stokes. I refer you tomy article if you wish to see studies which are not with-out interest on the modifications of this rhythm. Thispatient was always in a state of absent-mindedness andrevery. When her attention was attracted throughany process, her respiration changed and became againnearly normal. It is the same in the other cases ofCheyne-Stokes that I found in hystericals. This respi-ration exists
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