Neuroses of sensation of the pharynx and larynx, or sensory neuroses of the throat / by Louis Elsberg.

  • Elsberg, Louis, 1836-1885.
Date:
1882
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Credit: Neuroses of sensation of the pharynx and larynx, or sensory neuroses of the throat / by Louis Elsberg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    tactile and reflex hypersesthesia, with hyperalgesia from only external impressions, 2 ; tactile and reflex hyperaes- thesia, with algesia both spontaneous and from external impressions, 2 ; neuralgia, 9 ; reflex, with very little or no tactile and dolorous hyperaesthesia, 3. Parcesthesia^ 21. As to sex and age, there were 26 male and 32 female patients, of whom the three youngest were a girl of seven and a half and two boys of eight and nine years respect- ively, and the two oldest a woman of 58 and a man of 65 years. Altogether there were Under 10 years, 3 cases, viz., 2 male and I female Between 10 and 20 ( 4 7 2 4 44 5 f ( < 20 “ 30 44 13 5 4 44 8 4 4 (i 30 “ 40 4 4 19 8 4 44 II 4 4 4 4 40 “ 50 4 II “ 5 4 44 6 4 4 4 4 50 “ 60 4 3 2 4 44 I 4 4 Over 60 4 4 2 “ 2 4 The greatest number of both sexes were between 30 and 40 years old. The rise and fall as to age in the number of male patients is remarkably uniform. The number of fe- males exceeds that of males in every decade except in those under 10 and over 50; the total .excess is not more than 23 per cent., which is much less than is usually supposed to be the case in such neuroses. b. DISEASES OR PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS IN CONNECTION WITH WHICH SENSORY NEUROSES OF THE THROAT HAVE BEEN OBSERVED. I. Paralysis.—Although the term paralysis embraces im- pairment of sensation as well as of motion, yet when used without qualification, only deranged muscular activity, either neuropathic or myopathic, is usually meant. Throat dysaesthesiae, i. e., anaesthesia, hyperaesthesia, and, to some extent, paraesthesia, occur in many cases of paralysis; they have been observed in cases of laryngeal paralysis from