. Hysteria and certain allied conditions, their nature and treatment, with special reference to the application of the rest cure, massage, electrotherapy, hypnotism, etc. Fig. 12.—Hysterical Contracture of the Foot : Equinovarus Type.—{AfterRicher.) Fig. 13.—Contracture ofFoot without Con-tracture of the Toes.— [After Richer.) tracture mentioned above, involving the muscles ofthe trunk and extremities, it is not uncommon to seecontractures of the facial and ocular muscles, of thelaryngeal muscles, of the esophagus, vulva, stomach, DISTURBANCES OF MOTION: CONTRACTURE. 107 intestines, etc. Contr

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. Hysteria and certain allied conditions, their nature and treatment, with special reference to the application of the rest cure, massage, electrotherapy, hypnotism, etc. Fig. 12.—Hysterical Contracture of the Foot : Equinovarus Type.—{AfterRicher.) Fig. 13.—Contracture ofFoot without Con-tracture of the Toes.— [After Richer.) tracture mentioned above, involving the muscles ofthe trunk and extremities, it is not uncommon to seecontractures of the facial and ocular muscles, of thelaryngeal muscles, of the esophagus, vulva, stomach, DISTURBANCES OF MOTION: CONTRACTURE. 107 intestines, etc. Contracture of the facial muscles,simulating facial paralysis, not infrequently occursafter a convulsive attack. Contracture of the mus-cles of the lower jaw, giving rise to hysterical teta-nus, is not rare. The following cases* are illustra-tive : A negress, under my care at the City Hospital,with marked hysterical stigmata, showed, after eachconvulsive attack, rigid contracture of the temporaland masseter muscles, lasting for several other muscles of the body were affected withcontracture, and there was no paralysis. In another case, also a negress,

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