On a Case of Hysterical Hip Disease in a Man, Resulting from Injury.

Works of Brodie and other authors on hysterical affections of the joints.—Characters of hysterical joint disease.—Attitude of the limb; special features of the pain.—Case of Charv—; initial injury of the left inferior extremity; attitude of the patient; shape of the buttock and gluteal fold. Considerable clinical analogies with true organic hip disease.—Distinctive features: Brodie’s sign; hemianæsthesia; pharyngeal ansesthesia fyc.—Necessity of examination under chloroform.