Hystero-Epilepsy
a nervous disease of women, occurring during the fertile period of life, first observed and described by Charcot. The disease is of a paroxysmal nature, and its symptoms may be divided into inter-paroxysmal and paroxysmal. The former consist of extreme sensitiveness over the region of one or both ovaries, and loss of tactile sensibility and complete complete insensibility to pain in one lateral half of the body, the side on which ovarian tenderness exists.
Sight is sometimes implicated, manifested by a peculiar form of color blindness. All these impairments of sensation may be shifted to the other side of the body on the application of magnets and plates of metals, originally fected side regaining sensibility so long as the opposite one is insensible. The mental faculties are generally weakened and the disease is for the most part incurable.