A case of male hysteria, manifested in the form of algolagnia (the patient's desire for operations without any reason)

On 3/II 1934, a patient from a polyclinic was admitted to the emergency room of the Poltava Interdistrict Hospital with a diagnosis of "esophagus" for emergency surgery. The patient was admitted to the surgical department of the same hospital and the surgeon on duty was immediately called to him. Patient D. V., 41 years old, Russian, single, working in Dnepropetrovsk region as a lecturer. According to the patient, on the day of admission to hospital, he, passing Poltava by train, began to experience sharp pains in the abdomen, accompanied by nausea and vomiting. After some time, burping and bloating of the abdomen appeared. Gases did not come out, there were no stools that day. Due to these pains, the patient got off the train and went to the outpatient clinic for help, from where he was sent to the hospital.