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Image from page 87 of "Hysteria and certain allied conditions, their nature and treatment, with special reference to the application of the rest cure, massage, electrotherapy, hypnotism, etc" (1897)

Identifier: hysteriacertaina1897pres

Title: Hysteria and certain allied conditions, their nature and treatment, with special reference to the application of the rest cure, massage, electrotherapy, hypnotism, etc

Year: 1897 (1890s)

Authors: Preston, George J. (George Junkin), b. 1858

Subjects: Hysteria Hysteria

Publisher: Philadelphia, P. Blakiston, son & co.

Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

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is for white light; then come blue, red,and green. The smallest field is that for violet. Inhysteria these relations are altered. In some casesthere is a simple restriction of the color fields, intheir normal order, but nearly always there is a re-versal of the fields. Thus, the most frequent changeis between the red and blue. Instead of blue oc-cupying the largest field, as it does normally, itsplace is taken by red. Parinaud, commenting uponthe fact that in hysteria the largest color field is thatfor red, says that perhaps the well-known predilec-tion of hysterics for red may be thus explained.From a careful analysis of a large number of hys- 8o HYSTERIA: ITS NATURE AND TREATMENT. terical visual defects, Mitchell and De Schweinitz*draw the following conclusions: (i) Achromatop-sia is not present in the American cases. (2) Re-versal in the normal sequence of the colors, so thatred is the largest field, is usually present when thereis anesthesia, but disturbance of color sense is not

 

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Fig. 4.—Normal Visual Field. The unshaded portion of the diagram shows form field. Line blue field ; line + + + + red field; line 1 1 h green field. necessarily associated with anesthesia. (3) Thegreen field is, relatively at least, more and moreoften contracted than any other. (4) The violenceof the hysterical manifestation bears no relation tothe disturbance of the color sense. (5) The most * Jour, of Nervous and Mental Dis., 1894. SYMPTOMATOLOGY. 81 J

 

 

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