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

F Sellal; S Frismand

doi:10.1016/j.neurol.2018.05.006

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

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

Authors

F Sellal¹, S Frismand²

Affiliations

¹ CMRR, Neurology department, Hôpitaux Civils de Colmar, 39, avenue de la Liberté, 68024 Colmar cedex, France; Inserm U-1118, Faculté de Médecine, 67000 Strasbourg University, France. Electronic address: francois.sellal@ch-colmar.fr.
² Neurology department, University Hospital, 54000 Nancy, France.

PMID: 30658849
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurol.2018.05.006

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.

Publication types

Historical Article

MeSH terms

Blepharospasm / complications
Blepharospasm / pathology
Dystonic Disorders / complications
Dystonic Disorders / history
Dystonic Disorders / pathology*
Facial Muscles / abnormalities
Facial Muscles / pathology
History, 19th Century
Humans
Medicine in the Arts* / history
Paris
Sculpture* / history