Various Forms of Hysterical or Functional Paralysis

patients suffering from these disorders. One feature of . tg book is therefore the number of fully-reported cases illustrate of the points under discussion. These cases are admira J told, and make very interesting reading. He has also atternp ^ a classification of the various forms of hysterical or functi? J paralysis, based on the supposed seat of the disturbance^ function in the nervous centres. Some systematisation of ca of functional paralysis is urgently needed. The question^ Is our knowledge of them even yet sufficiently wide to Qf us to form generalisations? To a certain extent the labour5 the many workers in neurology during recent years have resjJ in the distinction of several varieties of functional paraty ̂ A great step in advance would be the use of the term Hyste f by all writers to mean a definite type of nervous disorder cl acterised by certain easily recognised signs. . jji Charcot has attempted to do this, and considers hysterj^, respect of its origin as a perversion of certain brain functi j The author would still further limit the use of the term* ^5 restrict it to a certain class of functional disorders oi u "central" type, and not apply it to all functional p-1 paralyses of cerebral origin. One feature of this work lS attempt to classify apart cases in which the symptoms c? jc spond with those met with in cerebral paralysis of origin and in diseases of the spinal cord, into cases of ce}e^ and spinal type respectively. A broad distinction of this ,