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Spasms in hysterical patients

An epileptic or sick person having a fit on a stretcher, two men try to restrain him. Ink drawing attributed to J.B. Jouvenet.

Members of the Jansenist sect having convulsions and spasms as a result of religious fanaticism. Engraving by B. Picart.

An old woman sits in a chair after one of her turns, while a younger woman pours her medication. Mezzotint by J. Bromley, 1833, after H. Liverseege.

On the neck as a medical region, and on trachelismus : on hidden seizures; on paroxysmal apoplexy, paralysis, mania, syncope, &c. / by Marshall Hall.

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An old woman sits in a chair after one of her turns, while a younger woman pours her medication. Mezzotint by J. Bromley, 1833, after H. Liverseege.

Members of the Jansenist sect having convulsions and spasms as a result of religious fanaticism. Engraving by B. Picart.

Spasms in hysterical patients

An epileptic or sick person having a fit on a stretcher, two men try to restrain him. Ink drawing attributed to J.B. Jouvenet.

On the neck as a medical region, and on trachelismus : on hidden seizures; on paroxysmal apoplexy, paralysis, mania, syncope, &c. / by Marshall Hall.