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gia. These paralyses may last for days or weeks, and then sud- 

 denly disappear. 



There may be great variation in the heart's action palpitation 

 with a feeling of fulness and pressure in the chest, of constriction 

 and anxiety ; or, on the contrary, a tendency to temporary lack of 

 action, and faintness with hysterical trance. 



There are changes in the vessels, the skin changing from red to 

 pale, either on part of or the entire body. These changes of the 

 vessels may affect different organs, as brain, lungs, uterus, etc., or 

 cause bleeding from the nose, mouth, stomach, respiratory passages, 

 etc. But hysterical patients sometimes simulate such things, drink- 

 ing blood and vomiting it, causing bleeding from the skin, etc. 

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