Cases of tetany, hysterical contraction, and reflex contraction, illustrating varieties of chronic functional spasm / by Henry Hun.

  • Henry Hun
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[1888]
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Credit: Cases of tetany, hysterical contraction, and reflex contraction, illustrating varieties of chronic functional spasm / by Henry Hun. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    [Reprinted from The Medical News, October 13,1887.] CASES OF TETANY, HYSTERICAL CONTRACTION, AND REFLEX CONTRACTION; ILLUSTRATING VARIETIES OF CHRONIC FUNCTIONAL TONIC SPASM. BY HENRY HUN, M.D., PROFESSOR OF DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINETiN the ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE. Cases of tetany in the adult, although they are not very commonly met with, yet present them- selves in a great variety of forms, both in regard to the number and distribution of the muscles in- volved and in the duration of the contraction. The following case is remarkable in that the muscular spasm was so continuous (lasting many months) and involved the muscles of the body so generally: Case I.—M. H., twenty-six years of age, single, a seamstress, entered St. Peter’s Hospital July 8, 1887. She had always been healthy till the first part of Sep- tember, 1886, when, while menstruating, she was holding horses in the rain, and in trying to shelter a little girl, who was with her in the wagon, she, her- self, became thoroughly drenched with rain. Almost immediately after this exposure her right hand felt stiff. This abnormal feeling in her hand continued, and two weeks later the muscles of the calf of the
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