ummer months. At the height of
the attack the man lost appetite and spirit, had a pricking sensation,
and sometimes minute red papules appeared all over the hand. He had
tried almost every variety of treatment, but sulphur did the most good,
as it had kept the disease under for twelve months. Latterly, even that
failed.

Bachman reports the history of a case of hyperidrosis cured by
hypnotism.

Unilateral and localized sweating accompanies some forms of nervous
disturbance. Mickle has discussed unilateral sweating in the general
paralysis of the insane. Ramskill reports a case of sweating on one
side of the face in a patient who was subject to epileptic convulsions.
Takacs describes a case of unilateral sweating with proportionate
nervous prostration. Bartholow and Bryan report unilateral sweating of
the head. Cason speaks of unilateral sweating of the head, face, and
neck. 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. There are instances on record in
which fear and other similar emotions have caused a sweating of blood,
the expression "sweating blood" being not uncommon.

Among the older writers, Ballonius, Marcolini, and Riedlin mention
bloody sweat. The Ephemerides speaks of it in front of the
hypochondrium.