Officer dies in convulsions: Servant develops hysterical convulsions, which vanish on being explained as such.
Case 501. (Hurst, March, 1917.)
An officer and his servant were blown up by a shell. The servant ran to fetch a stretcher for the officer, to whom he was much attached, but on his return the officer made a few convulsive movements and died. Immediately after, the servant had a fit. During the next two months he had eleven more. Hurst made a diagnosis of hysterical fits resulting from emotion, explained his idea of their origin and nature to the servant, and the convulsions then ceased completely.
Re hysterical convulsions, see remarks under Case 443.