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of hysterical blue oedema occupying the entire extremity of the 

 upper limb and making the hands appear swollen, bluish, cold, 

 contrasting in the highest degree in volume, temperature, and 

 coloring with the hand of the opposite side. He then exhibited 

 in the auditorium a patient suffering from major hysteria who 

 was hypnotizable. The following suggestions had been given 

 her during the hypnotic sleep for four or five days : She was told 

 her right hand was puffing out, becoming larger than the other; 

 that it was getting blue, becoming red, then violet ; finally, that 

 it was hard and was getting colder and colder. Under the influ- 

 ence of these suggestions, repeated at five or six hypnotic sit- 

 tings, the right hand became enormous very rapidly, almost dou- 

 ble the volume of the other ; it was really much discolored and of 

 a true cyanic tint ; it was hard to the touch, and the finger would 

 not sink into it ; finally, its temperature was three degrees (centi- 

 grade) below the normal temperature of the rest of the body. In 

 a word, it resembled in every respect the hand of another hys- 

 teric who was suffering from a spontaneous blue oedema. It was, 

 then, possible to produce and localize in the hand by means of 

 simple suggestions lasting disorders of nutrition and circulation 

 of such a character that the hand became half again as large, 

 more colored, and much colder than the other hand." 



Another curious vasomotor phenomenon is the "bloody 

 sweat." It is sometimes found occurring spontaneously without 

 visible reference to mental states. Such a case is reported by Dr. 

 Ernoul, of St. Male* A hysterical girl whom he observed had 

 bleeding spots on various parts of her body which appeared and 

 disappeared in most unaccountable fashion. A somewhat similar 

 case was observed by Drs. Artigalas and Remond,t in which the 

 bleeding could be produced by suggestion. The patient was a 

 young married woman, twenty-two years of age. She entered the 

 hospital October 31, 1891, for various troubles requiring surgical 

 treatment. Later she complained of pain in the ears, and had 

 several haemorrhages from them. On the 23d of November and 

 the seven subsequent days she at times wept bloody tears. She 

 called the doctors' attention to this on the 27th ; they could find 

 no injury in the eye, but learned that she had had in childhood 

 frequent hsemorrhages from the nose and one from the stomach. 

 A careful examination showed many hysterical symptoms. She 

 was hypnotized, but it was not possible to check the bloody tears 

 by direct suggestion ; they could, however, be occasioned by sug- 

 gestion at any time. " On December 1st, Prof. Artigalas put her 

 again to sleep, and suggested to her that the haemorrhages from 

 the eye would not recur, but that she would bleed from the hollow 



* Revue de l'Hypnotisme, iv, 283] \ Op. cit., vi, 250. 



