KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

HYTHE

HYPOTHETICAL YEARLY

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HYPOTHETICAL YEARLY TENAN CY. The basis, in England, of rating lands and hereditaments to the poor-rate, and to other rates and taxes that are expressed to be leviable or assessable in like manner as the poor-rate.

there is nervestorm characterized by loss or abandonment of self-control in the expression of the emotions, particularly grief, by par oxysms of tears or laughter or both together, sensations of constriction as of a ball rising in the throat (globus hystericus), convulsive movements in the chest, pelvis, and abdomen, sometimes leading to a fall with apparent un consciousness, followed by a relapse into semi unconsciousness or catalepsy. In the non-con vulsive forms, all kinds of organic paralyses may be simulated, as well as muscular contrac tions and spasms, tremor, loss of sensation (anr assthesta) or exaggerated sensation (hyperesthe sia), disturbances of respiration, disordered ap petite, accelerated pulse, hemorrhages in the skin (stigmata), pain, swelling, or even disloca tion of the joints, and great amenability to sug gestion. —Hystero-epilepsy. See EPILEPSY. Those who, hav ing been thought dead, had, after a long ab sence in foreign countries, returned safely home; or those who, having' been thought dead in battle, had afterwards unexpectedly escaped from their enemies and returned home. These, among the Romans, were not permitted to enter their own houses at the door, but were received at a passage opened in the roof. Enc. Land. HYSTEROFOTMOI.

HYRNES.

In old English law. A par

ish.

HYSTERIA. A paroxysmal disease or disorder of the nervous system, more common in females than males, not originating in any anatomical lesion, due to psychic rather than physical causes, and attended, in the acute or convulsive form, by extraordinary manifesta tions of secondary effects of extreme nervous ness. Hysteria is a state in which ideas control the body and produce morbid changes in its func tions. Mcebius. A special psychic state, char acterized by symptoms which can also be pro duced or reproduced by suggestion, and which can be treated by psychotherapy or persuasion, hysteric and hypnotic states being practically equivalent to each other. Babinski. A purely psychic or mental disorder due to hereditary predisposition. Charcot. A state resulting from a psychic lesion or nervous shock, leading to repression or aberration of the sexual in stinct. Freud. Hysteria is much more com mon in women than in men, and was formerly thought to be due to some disorder of the uterus or sexual system; but it is now known that it may occur in men, in children, and in very aged persons of either sex. In the convulsive form of hysteria, common ly called "hysterics" or "a fit of hysterics,"

HYSTEROTOMY.

The Csesarean opera

tion. See CESAREAN SECTION.

HYTHE. In English law. A port, wharf, or small haven to embark or land merchan dise at Cowell; Blount.