Elliotson
mentions sweat from the left half of the body and the left
extremities only. Lewis reports a case of unilateral perspiration
with an excess of temperature of 3.5 degrees F. in the axilla of
the perspiring side. Mills, White, Dow, and Duncan also cite
instances of unilateral perspiration. Boquis describes a case of
unilateral perspiration of the skin of the head and face, and
instances of complete unilateral perspiration have been
frequently recorded by the older writers,--Tebure, Marcellus
Donatus, Paullini, and Hartmann discussing it. Hyperidrosis
confined to the hands and feet is quite common.
Instances of bloody sweat and "stigmata" have been known through
the ages and are most interesting anomalies. In the olden times
there were people who represented that in their own persons they
realized at certain periods the agonies of Gethsemane, as
portrayed in medieval art, e.g., by pictures of Christ wearing
the crown of thorns in Pilate's judgment hall. Some of these
instances were, perhaps, of the nature of compensatory
hemorrhage, substituting the menses or periodic hemorrhoids,
hemoptysis, epistaxis, etc., or possibly purpura. Extreme
religious frenzy or deep emotions might have been the indirect
cause of a number of these bleeding zealots.
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