. A treatise on the nervous diseases of children : for physicians and students. must explain the miracles ascribed tomagneto-therapy or metallo-therapy, that played such animportant role some ten or fifteen years ago in France. Of the special senses vision is most frequently subjectto hysterical disorder. In some there is true photophobia,in others a diminution of visual perception is more common, 100 THE NERVOUS DISEASES OF CHILDREN. and the patient may indeed be unaware of the existence ofsuch diminished visual sensation, which is the best proofthat it is not intentional or simulated. The re
. A treatise on the nervous diseases of children : for physicians and students. must explain the miracles ascribed tomagneto-therapy or metallo-therapy, that played such animportant role some ten or fifteen years ago in France. Of the special senses vision is most frequently subjectto hysterical disorder. In some there is true photophobia,in others a diminution of visual perception is more common, 100 THE NERVOUS DISEASES OF CHILDREN. and the patient may indeed be unaware of the existence ofsuch diminished visual sensation, which is the best proofthat it is not intentional or simulated. The retina may beentirely insensitive to light, there may be distinct limita-tion of the visual field, or there may be a complete lossof every form of visual perception in one eye. (Fig. 44.)Bilateral loss of sight is said to occur in hysterical patients,but as a rule it is simply transitory. I have not had op-portunity to see this special visual defect in children. Visceral hysteria deserves a passing notice ; the paral-ysis of the bladder and increased peristaltic action of the. o. s. O. D. Fig. 44.—Hysterical Loss of Color Sense and Limitation of Visual Field. ColorSense Absent in Left Eye and Field Contracted ; in Right Eye Field less Con-tracted ; Order of Appreciation of Colors from Without In was Yellow, Violet, Blue,Red, Green. (After Peck, from Dana.) stomach and bowels have been mentioned in connectionwith the motor disturbances of hysteria, but there are twoother forms of hysterical manifestations that are worthy offurther mention. The one form is hysterical in this condition absolutely refuse food, and if theytake it, vomit it at once. In some instances this is accom-plished without effort on the part of the patient and seemsentirely unintentional. In other instances, again, the pa-tient deliberately sets to work to eject the contents of thestomach, and does not give up the effort until she has suc-ceeded. In my service at the Montefiore Home I frequen
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