Nervous and mental diseases . Fig. 259.—Anterior arc de cercle (Knobloch).. ^^^ Fig. 260.—Lateral arc de cercle (Richer). Hon, in which some rigidity may, however, persist. Stertor and froth-ing saliva may appear, and sometimes general twitchings or sharp spasms I I HYSTERIA. 633 may still agitate the patient at intervals. The pupil may not respondto light. 3. The Period of Cloicnism.—After the phase of resolution of theepileptoid period has lasted a short time, the second period develops. Itis made up of two phases,—(a) a phase of contortions^ or illogical atti-tudes, and (6) a phase of wide-


Nervous and mental diseases . Fig. 259.—Anterior arc de cercle (Knobloch).. ^^^ Fig. 260.—Lateral arc de cercle (Richer). Hon, in which some rigidity may, however, persist. Stertor and froth-ing saliva may appear, and sometimes general twitchings or sharp spasms I I HYSTERIA. 633 may still agitate the patient at intervals. The pupil may not respondto light. 3. The Period of Cloicnism.—After the phase of resolution of theepileptoid period has lasted a short time, the second period develops. Itis made up of two phases,—(a) a phase of contortions^ or illogical atti-tudes, and (6) a phase of wide-ranged, or grand, movements. The con-tortions of the first phase are usually steadily maintained for severalminutes, thereby varying essentially from, the grand movements of the


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