Spiritualism and allied causes and conditions of nervous derangement (1876)
Hammond, William Alexander, 1828-1900 · New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 337
touch the bed,and is so rigid and strongly arched that no ordinary force, suchas a powerful man can exert, suffices to overcome the extremetonicity of the muscles. In about a minute from the begin- 322 HYSTEROID AFFECTIONS, ning of the rigidity the spasm suddenly relaxes, and with along-drawn… … Fig. 8. No one has written with greater effect in regard to themanifestations of hysteria and hystero-epilepsy than Charcot.As a most striking instance of this latter affection I cite fromhim the following instance, * already referred to in anothercommunication under the head of ecstasy. Ler., aged…
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