Tics and Their Treatment. Meige Henry
X TICS OF SPEECH
CHAPTER XI THE EVOLUTION OF TIC
GILLES DE LA TOURETTE'S DISEASE
CHAPTER XII ANTAGONISTIC GESTURES AND STRATAGEMS
CHAPTER XIII THE COMPLICATIONS OF TIC
CHAPTER XIV THE RELATION OF TICS TO OTHER PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS
CHAPTER XV THE DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF TIC
TIC AND PARAMYOCLONUS MULTIPLEX—TIC AND MYOCLONUS
CHAPTER XVIII THE TREATMENT OF TICS
CHAPTER XIX TREATMENT BY RE-EDUCATION
T I C S · A N D
THEIR TREATMENT
BY HENRY MEIGE AND E. FEINDEL
With a Preface by
Professor Brissaud
TRANSLATED and EDITED, with a CRITICAL APPENDIX
BY S. A. K. WILSON, M.A., M.B., B.Sc.
Resident Medical Officer, National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic.
Queen Square, London
NEW YORK
WILLIAM WOOD AND COMPANY
1907
COPYRIGHTED 1907 BY SIDNEY APPLETON
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PREFACE
NOTHING could be less scientific than the establishment of a hierarchy among medical problems based on the relative severity of symptoms. Prognosis apart, there can be no division of diseases into major and minor.
Hitherto no great importance has been attached to those reputedly harmless "movements of the nerves" known as tics: an involuntary grimace, a peculiar cry, an unexpected gesture, may constitute the whole morbid entity, and scarcely invite passing attention, much less demand investigation. Yet it is the outcome of ignorance to relegate any symptom to a secondary place, for we forget that difficult questions are often elucidated by apparently trivial data. A fresh proof of the truth of this remark is to be found in the accompanying volume, to which MM. Meige and Feindel have devoted several years of observation.
To begin with, they must be congratulated on having done justice to the word tic. No doubt its origin is commonplace and its form unscientific, but its penetration into medical terminology is none the less instructive.