"Night-Nurse's Paralysis": A Temporary Tonic Motor Paralysis *Paper read before Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society, 8th May, 1946.
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On a beautiful evening of April, 1943, I gave a talk on elementary psychology to a small party of R.A.M.C. orderlies and convalescent patients at a detached hospital at Gibraltar. But this simple talk led up to a series of events of which to-night is one. At the end of my short talk, an orderly rose and said: " Sir, will you tell us what night-nurse's paralysis is ? " I looked at him, thought, looked at him again, tried further thought, and finally said: " No, certainly not. I've never heard of it." The orderly then gave a full description of the condition, which was confirmed by two other orderlies in this party of about a dozen men. I returned to my billet a sadder man. After several years of neurology and over twenty years of psychiatry, to be told of a common condition of
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