HYSTERIA. 415 HYTHE. des liystfriques: les accidents meni-aux (Paris, 1894) ; Richer, Paralysies et contractures hysti- riqucs (Paris, 1892). HYSTER'ICS. See Htstebia. HYS'TERO - EPILEPSY. An improper, though frequently employed, term for a variety of hysteria, in which convulsive attacks occur, of an epileptoid nature. It is not a form of epilepsy, though not differentiated from that dis- ease till Charcot, of Paris, gave an accurate and intelligent description of hysteria. See Hts- TFRIA. Consult: Fere, "Xotes pour servir ft I'histoire de rhystero-Ppilepsie," in Archives de 'Seurologie (Paris, 1882). HYS'TEROT'OMY. See C^saeeax Opeea- TION. HYTHE, liitH (AS., hiivcn). A market-town and parliamentary borough in Kent, England, 14 miles south of Canterbury. Hythe is a favorite seaside suiiuner resort, and the seat of the na- tional school of musketry (Map: England, H 5). It has an interesting church, jjartly Norman and partly Early English. Under the chancel is an extraordinary collection of humanskullsand bones — many of the skulls having deep cuts in them; their age and origin are uncertain, but they are reputed to be the remains of Danes slain in a battle fought about 1000. Hythe owns its water- works. It is one of the Cinque Ports, but through the silting of its harbor has become removed half a mile from the coast. Population, in 1891, 4347; in 1901,.i.557; population of parliamentary borough in I89I, 35,547; in 1901, 40,663.
