. Medical and surgical therapy. unctional impo-tence, which resisted all thephysiotherapeutic methodswhich ordinarily improverigidities or contractures re-sulting from osteo-articular ormuscular lesions. Psycho-therapy proved equally in-effective. At the Neurological Society of Paris, Henry Meige,Mle. G. Levy, and the present writer ^ drew attentionto those disabilities following a wound of the forearmor of the hand, a wound which often left the nervesand bones intact, and which at times amountedmerely to a simple contusion. H. Meige lays stresson the fact that the electrical reactions are but
. Medical and surgical therapy. unctional impo-tence, which resisted all thephysiotherapeutic methodswhich ordinarily improverigidities or contractures re-sulting from osteo-articular ormuscular lesions. Psycho-therapy proved equally in-effective. At the Neurological Society of Paris, Henry Meige,Mle. G. Levy, and the present writer ^ drew attentionto those disabilities following a wound of the forearmor of the hand, a wound which often left the nervesand bones intact, and which at times amountedmerely to a simple contusion. H. Meige lays stresson the fact that the electrical reactions are butslightly affected, arterial pressure is equal to that ofthe sound side, and that frequently there is no impair-ment of the reflexes or sensibility, but that on the other 1 Henry Meige, Mine. , and Mile. L^vy, Impotence detons les mouvements de la main et des doigts, avec integrite des reactionselectriques (main figee), Societe de Neurologie, November 4, Neurologiquc, November-December 1915, pp. Fig. 53.— Congealed hand. 362 TREATMENT AND REPAIR OF NERVE LESIONS hand vasomotor and thermal disturbances are nearlyalways present. The various joints show a certaindegree of rigidity, and after passive movement of thehand it returns to its congealed attitude, resemblingthe accoucheurs hand in its slightly dropped wrist,.hollow palm, extended fingers, and in the thumb andlittle finger tending to approach the middle line belowthe three other fingers, which are themselves tightlyapplied to each other. Babinski and Froment, who have devoted specialattention to the study of this condition, have givena complete description of all the objective symptomswhich differentiate it from known organic affectionsand from contractures or paralyses of an hystericalor pithiatic nature. The signs are as follows : ^— (a) The presence of very marked vasomotor dis-turbances, generally with segmentary distribution,which does not correspond to a definite nerve areaand pr
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