HYSTERICAL CONVULSIONS AFTER PARTURITION.

Brain Damage after Febrile Convulsions

Despite the suggestions of several writers on the importance of convulsive seizures in infancy as an aetiological factor in the development of cerebral palsies, little attention is given to this association in the standard texts in general medicine and pathology, or even in the more special treatises on diseases of the nervous system. It is not altogether surprising, therefore, that convulsions...

Hysterical paraplegia.

Between 1944 and 1984 20 patients were admitted to a spinal injuries centre with a diagnosis of traumatic paraplegia. They subsequently walked out and the diagnosis was revised to hysterical paraplegia. A further 23 patients with incomplete traumatic injuries, who also walked from the centre, have been compared with them as controls. The features that enabled a diagnosis of hysterical paraplegi...

Case of Convulsions Occurring after Delivery

Anne M'Pherson, set. 20, was admitted to the Maternity Hospital on Tuesday, 20th June 1871, and was delivered of a healthy male child at 4.20 P.M. of the same day. She continued perfectly well until 6 A.M. on Friday, the 23d, when she complained to the nurse that she could not see. About ten minutes afterwards she had a fit of an epileptiform character. It was not of very long duration, but a s...

Hysterical Belch

Spontaneous fits after convulsions with fever.

112 of an original sample of 134 children with febrile convulsions were reviewed between 8 years and 9 years 10 months after their initial attack. 17% of those followed up had had at least one spontaneous fit. A significant correlation was found with perinatal abnormalities. 12% had continuing recurrent fits. Persisting grand mal occurred most commonly in lower social class children who had had...