ABSTRACT

Results of an examination under chloroform.—Symptoms then presented by the patient.—Mixed or hystero-organic hip-disease—Hip-disease artificially produced in two women presenting the phenomena of great hypnotism.—Different proceedings employed to produce this coxalgia.—Characters of artificial hysterical coxalgia.—Nervous shock.—Traumatic suggestion.—Method of treating hysterical coxalgia; massage, its good but transitory results; influence of the psychical state.—Probable recovery.