. Diseases of the nervous system : for the general practitioner and student. Fig. 144.—Hysteric parts are shaded. Fig. 145.—Hysteric Anaesthesia. and the groins. Hysterical headache is not infrequent and may assumethe form of migraine or syphilitic headache by its exacerbations at frequently the pain is only a hyperesthesia of the scalp. Clavusis a characteristic hysterical pain; it is confined to a very limited area ofthe vertex of the head. Occipital, nuchal, intercostal, coccygeal painmay occur in hysteria. Hysterical pseudomeningitis is a well-known syndr
. Diseases of the nervous system : for the general practitioner and student. Fig. 144.—Hysteric parts are shaded. Fig. 145.—Hysteric Anaesthesia. and the groins. Hysterical headache is not infrequent and may assumethe form of migraine or syphilitic headache by its exacerbations at frequently the pain is only a hyperesthesia of the scalp. Clavusis a characteristic hysterical pain; it is confined to a very limited area ofthe vertex of the head. Occipital, nuchal, intercostal, coccygeal painmay occur in hysteria. Hysterical pseudomeningitis is a well-known syndrome; generalmalaise, anorexia, insomnia, headache and delirium are present. Whatwill differentiate it from true meningitis is the persistent absence of fever,also the pathological state of the cerebro-spinal fluid (see the latter).. HYSTERIA 467 Paresthesias in the form of coldness, numbness, burning, etc., arequite common in hysteria. The so-called globus hystericus is a well-known paresthetic phenomenon. It consists of a sensation of pressurein the throat or of a ball passing from the epigastrium to the throat. The special senses also suffer sometimes in hysteria. Taste, smell,audition and vision are not infrequently involved. Perverted hystericaltaste and smell are well known. Hysterical deafness is usually mention must be made of visual disturbances. Total amaurosis is rare, but contraction of the visual fields, disturbedperception of color and disturbed accom-modation are quite frequent. As to thecontracted field, it is concentric in themajority of cases; it is more often bilateralthan unilateral. The latter is in the ma-jority of cases on the side where sen-sory losses are most marked, as for ex-ample in case of hemiansesthesia. Visualacuity is usually intact. To this symp- Fig. 146.—Hy
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