Hysteria and certain allied conditions, their nature and treatment, with special reference to the application of the rest cure, massage, electrotherapy, hypnotism, etc . Fig. -Disseminated Anesthesia. The most characteristic variety of hysterical anes-thesia is hemianesthesia, and this form is seen nearlyas often as all the other varieties taken hemianesthesia divides the body into two 68 HYSTERIA: ITS NATURE AND TREATMENT. equal parts by a vertical plane passing through themiddle line, one-half being normal, the other anes-thetic. The dividing line is drawn with the utmost


Hysteria and certain allied conditions, their nature and treatment, with special reference to the application of the rest cure, massage, electrotherapy, hypnotism, etc . Fig. -Disseminated Anesthesia. The most characteristic variety of hysterical anes-thesia is hemianesthesia, and this form is seen nearlyas often as all the other varieties taken hemianesthesia divides the body into two 68 HYSTERIA: ITS NATURE AND TREATMENT. equal parts by a vertical plane passing through themiddle line, one-half being normal, the other anes-thetic. The dividing line is drawn with the utmost accur-. Fig. 2.—Glove and Stocking Form of Anesthesia. acy; the body is exactly bisected vertically, and theanesthetic and normal parts are sharply separated,with no tendency to shade into one another. It will SYMPTOMATOLOGY. 69 be noted that the classification here employed differssomewhat from that generally used, in that only twovarieties of anesthesia are recognized—the dissemi-nated, including that variety of anesthesia which


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