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Photographic Illustration of Pauly's Patient (top) and of Thompson's Wry-neck Family (bottom) with Geste Antagoniste in Case 1 (first patient from the left).
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Interestingly, a photograph of the four patients is available and shows evident geste antagoniste in case 1 (Figure 5).
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Photographic Portrait of Kinnier Wilson (left), Title Page of Wilson's Translation of Meige and Feindel 1902 Book on Tics (top right), and Title of Chapter 12 on Geste Antagoniste (bottom right).
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German by O. Griefe in 1903, and into English a few years later by Wilson (Figure 1).
Photographic Illustration of Pauly's Patient (top) and of Thompson's Wry-neck Family (bottom) with Geste Antagoniste in Case 1 (first patient from the left).
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Interestingly, a photograph of the four patients is available and shows evident geste antagoniste in case 1 (Figure 5).
Photographic Illustration of Sgobbo's Patient.
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Sgobbo from Naples described a woman showing all the features of mental torticollis, with the classic counteracting phenomenon (Figure 6). Sgobbo considered that his patient had "Brissaud's disease" (as quoted by the author) and, accordingly, that the cause of the disorder was psychological.
Photographic Illustration of the Patient Described by Nogues and Sirol.
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He notably exhibited two original features of Brissaud's phenomenon (Figure 7): firstly, temporary alleviation of cervical spasm could be induced not only by the patient himself, but also when someone else's finger was placed on the patient's face; secondly, the patient could counteract his torticollis by using a device derived from a "hard bridge pince-nez".