On a Case with Symptoms Simulating Hysteria in Pregnancy, Going on to Apparent Dementia; Death Shortly after Delivery; Brain-Lesion Found on Post-Mortem. Child Still-Born, with Contractures

form complicating pregnancy and labour. The connexion between the generative organs and the nervous system is so intimate that functional disturbances of the latter in pregnancy are frequent. It is important, however, to remember that such disturbances as we commonly associate with hysteria may be the early symptoms of a grave nervous lesion, as the following case shows. The patient was a young primipara, aged 20, a biscuit-factory girl, who at the date of delivery was rather more than eight months pregnant. Father and mother were healthy; there was no history of fits in the family, but the mother is most emotional.