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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER IX
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It was normal at the time of examination.

The author offered no explanation of this case, but the patient gave a decidedly neurotic history, and the symptoms seem to point with some degree of probability to hysteria.

Pope reports a peculiar case in which there were daily attacks of neuralgia preceded by sweating confined to a bald spot on the head.

Rockwell reports a case of unilateral hyperidrosis in a feeble old man which he thought due to organic affection of the cervical sympathetic.
Dupont has published an account of a curious case of chronic general hyperidrosis or profuse sweating which lasted upward of six years.

The woman thus affected became pregnant during this time and was happily delivered of an infant, which she nursed herself.


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