It was
normal at the time of examination. The author offered no
explanation of this case, but the patient gave a decidedly
neurotic history, and the symptoms seem to point with some degree
of probability to hysteria. Pope reports a peculiar case in which
there were daily attacks of neuralgia preceded by sweating
confined to a bald spot on the head. Rockwell reports a case of
unilateral hyperidrosis in a feeble old man which he thought due
to organic affection of the cervical sympathetic.
Dupont has published an account of a curious case of chronic
general hyperidrosis or profuse sweating which lasted upward of
six years. The woman thus affected became pregnant during this
time and was happily delivered of an infant, which she nursed
herself. According to Dupont, this hyperidrosis was independent
of any other affection, and after having been combated
fruitlessly by various remedies, yielded at last to fluid extract
of aconitin.
Myrtle relates the case of a man of seventy-seven, who, after
some flying pains and fever, began to sweat profusely and
continued to do so until he died from exhaustion at the end of
three months from the onset of the sweating. Richardson records
another case of the same kind.
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