The term "comptocormia" was originally used by Souques,1 who presented a case before the Société de neurologie in Paris in February, 1915, as applied to the forward flexion of the body with or without lateral inclination. Hurst2 has reported similar cases under the name "bent back." The particulars of sixteen cases of camptocormia have been presented by Rosanoff
Saloff,3 from whose article some of the accompanying illustrations are taken. It is stated that the most careful examination of these patients has revealed no organic lesions. The author divides the patients into two classes, namely, those who had been wounded, and second, those showing no evidence of wounds. The first class included only two of the sixteen cases, and the injury was distant from the part of the body bent. In the second class the men had been the victims of shell explosion and had been thrown to