Some images from
Hysteria Beyond Freud
(Sander L. Gilman, Helen King, Roy Porter, G. S. Rousseau, Elaine Showalter)
University of California Press, 1993
The hypnotized patient and the tuning fork. From Paul Richer, "Gonflement du cou chez un hystérique"
The sensitive skin of the epileptic becomes a tabula rasa upon which the disease can be inscribed. From Charles Féré, "Note sur un cas de mélanodermie récurrente chez un épileptique apathique,"The hand of the male hysteric. From Paul Sollier, "Contracture Volontaire chez un Hystérique"
The hand of the male hysteric. From Paul Sollier, "Contracture Volontaire chez un Hystérique"