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. 2019 Mar;175(3):198-200.
doi: 10.1016/j.neurol.2018.05.006. Epub 2019 Jan 15.

Cervico-facial dystonia as depicted in sculpture before its scientific description

F Sellal  1 , S Frismand  2
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Cervico-facial dystonia as depicted in sculpture before its scientific description

F Sellal et al. Rev Neurol (Paris). 2019 Mar.

Abstract

The authors describe a sculpture from Daumier, called "Le Hargneux" (The peevish one), whose physiognomic study evokes hitherto unrecognized cranial-cervical dystonia. It is probably the first representation of dystonia in sculpture, before its scientific identification by Horatio Wood, in 1887.

Keywords: Art; Cervico-facial dystonia; History of medicine; Meige's syndrome; Movement disorders.

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