Medical and surgical therapy . A, B, C.—False sciatica (right side) uf several months duration. A, B, C—The same patient four days later, cured. A-F.—Functional monoplegia (right), folloWing sciatica. i Plate A-I.—Prolonged claudication due to false sciatica (left). THE TICS 777 must be considered as a functional, hystericalaffection. These few points should always be borne in mindby the physician called to examine a psychoneuroticpatient. They will help to reveal organic affectionswith tremor which, though rare in the neurology ofwar, may be met with. One may discover cases offamily tr
Medical and surgical therapy . A, B, C.—False sciatica (right side) uf several months duration. A, B, C—The same patient four days later, cured. A-F.—Functional monoplegia (right), folloWing sciatica. i Plate A-I.—Prolonged claudication due to false sciatica (left). THE TICS 777 must be considered as a functional, hystericalaffection. These few points should always be borne in mindby the physician called to examine a psychoneuroticpatient. They will help to reveal organic affectionswith tremor which, though rare in the neurology ofwar, may be met with. One may discover cases offamily tremor which have accidentally been passedinto the army, cases of true Sydenhams chorea in theyounger soldiers or organic affections such as dis-seminated sclerosis or a cerebellar syndrome comingto light spontaneously during the course of the cam-paign. But in these cases the etiology is different,and the disorder only exceptionally follows a nervousshock due to explosion of a projectile. As a rule,the disease appears spontaneously. The generalsymptomatology of these conditions will enable themto be recognized, given a certain practical knowledgeof neurology. We have intentionally refrained from mentioninga
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