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Paralysis and Other Diseases of the Nervous System in Childhood and Early Life
Paralysis and Other Diseases of the Nervous System in Childhood and Early Life Author:James Taylor General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1905 Original Publisher: Churchill Subjects: Nervous system diseases Nervous system Pediatrics Nervous System Diseases Medical / Neurology Medical / Neuroscience Medical / Pediatrics Medical / Surgery / Neurosurgery Notes: This is a black and white OCR repri... more »nt of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: The clinical aspect of amaurotic idiocy and opileptiform myoclonus differs greatly from that of the more usual types, and will subsequently be described apart. Generalised rigidity. -- As its name implies, the chief characteristic of this type of diplegia is a condition of muscular rigidity associated with weakness, affecting to a greater or less extent all the muscles of the body. Except in the most severe cases in which the weakness amounts to Fio. 5. -- Cross-legged progression in cerebral diilegia. From a photograph by Dr. Collier. complete paralysis there is more rigidity than weakness and in some cases it is astonishing that there should be so much power in the presence of such a degree of rigidity. The lower extremities are generally most affected, the upper to a less degree, and the facial region still less. Paroxysmal exacerbations of the rigidity have been noticed by some writers. Movement is slow and clumsy, and often athetotic and choreic movements are present in the limbs. If the patient is able to walk, the gait is digitigrade from contracture of the calf muscles ; the knees are slightlyflexed from contracture of the hamstrings ; the thighs are rotated inwards and the knees pressed close together, rubbing against one another with each projection of the limb. More severe adductor spasm gives rise commonly to the "cross-legged" progression. The assumption of the sitting po...« less