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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...on that side. I know of no lesion in any part of the brain which could produce such a combination of symptoms. Without denying the occurrence of central disorders in hysteria, I believe that the majority of symptoms are better explained by an injurious influence acting upon the peripheral nerves. Who knows how many cases of ovarian tenderness are really due to tenderness of the sacral nerves? It is well known that ovarian pain occurs even in men. So long as hysteria was regarded as occurring almost exclusively in females, it was plausible to connect it with the uterus. But now that it has been observed so often in males, and since it has been recognized that it may develop suddenly (traumatic hysteria) from violent emotional excitement, the old term should be abandoned. On account of its brevity, however, the word hysteria will hardly be replaced by a more suitable one, for example by vasomotor neuroparesis multiplex variabilis, which best corresponds with the real condition. In time anatomical changes will probably be found more frequently in purely hysterical symptoms, especially if they have lasted for a long time. These changes should be looked for, not in the central organs, but in the peripheral nerves, especially at their passage through narrow canals. I have really dilated upon listeria to a greater extent than accords with my purpose in this work. But I desired to show that the logical consideration of a single symptom--here the hysterical disorder of vision--may lead to the most important deductions concerning the nature of a hitherto obscure disease. In hysteria, accordingly, we have to deal with abnormal processes of innervation in the sympathetic, on the one hand with insufficient unconscious action upon the latter by the central or...

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