. Hysteria and certain allied conditions, their nature and treatment, with special reference to the application of the rest cure, massage, electrotherapy, hypnotism, etc. Fig. 6.—Hysterogenic Zones {anterior many cases cut short the paroxysm. It is interest-ing in this connection to recall the curious proced- SYMPTOMATOLOGY. 93 ures, mentioned in chapter i, which were prevalentin the epidemics of the middle ages : such as tying. Fig. 7.—Hysterogenic Zones [posterior a cord tightly around the waist and twisting astick which was thrust into it until the paroxysm 94 HYSTERIA: ITS NATURE AND TREAT
. Hysteria and certain allied conditions, their nature and treatment, with special reference to the application of the rest cure, massage, electrotherapy, hypnotism, etc. Fig. 6.—Hysterogenic Zones {anterior many cases cut short the paroxysm. It is interest-ing in this connection to recall the curious proced- SYMPTOMATOLOGY. 93 ures, mentioned in chapter i, which were prevalentin the epidemics of the middle ages : such as tying. Fig. 7.—Hysterogenic Zones [posterior a cord tightly around the waist and twisting astick which was thrust into it until the paroxysm 94 HYSTERIA: ITS NATURE AND TREATMENT. ceased ; and a similar treatment—that of striking orkicking the abdomen of a person seized with a fit. The following cases will illustrate the phenomenaof hysterogenic zones : A negro girl was brought intothe City Hospital with grand hysteria. She lay onthe floor in the crucifix attitude, perfectly still andrigid, until the ovarian or inframammary regionswere pressed upon, when a convulsive seizure wouldcome on. In this case deep pressure did not entirelysucceed in breaking up the attack. Another girl inhysterical lethargy could only be awakened by deeppressure over the ovary. A young married womanwas thrown into an attack of grand hysteria by rub-bing the spinal region, and the attack was cut shortby continuous forcible pressure in the same none of these cases had similar procedures everbeen resorted
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