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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ... LECTURE X. SPINAL PARALYSIS OF THE ADULT. NEW RESEARCHES CONCERNING THE PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY OF INFANTILE SPINAL PARALYSIS. AMYOTROPHIES CONSECUTIVE ON ACUTE DIFFUSE SPINAL LESIONS. Summary.--Spinal paralysis of the adult. History. Description of a case, borrowed from M. Duchenne (de Boulogne). Personal facts. Close analogies connecting acute spinal paralysis of the adult with that of the child. Symptomatological modifications due to age. Prognosis. Recent works concerning the pathological anatomy and physiology of infantile spinal paralysis; they confirm in essential points, and complete in certain respects, the results already detailed. A word as to acute sjiinal lesions which are not, as in infantile paralysis, systematically limited to the anterior cornua of the grey substance. Acute central generalised myelitis, Juemalomyelia, traumatic myelites, acute partial myelites. Conditions in which these affections determine the rapid atrophy of the muscles. I. Gentlemen,--It is now a long time since M. Duchenne (de Boulogne) noted the existence, in the adult, of an acute spinal paralysis, comparable to that of the child.1 Dr. Moritz Meyer,2 of Berlin, and Dr. Koberts,3 have also, in past days, reported cases which evidently belong to this category. I have, myself, been more than once struck with the remarkable resemblance which produces a 1 See, in reference to this subject, the thesis of M. Duchenne (de Boulogne) lils. * M. Mejer, 'Die Electrlcitiit und ihre Anwendung,' Berlin, 1868, p. 210. 3 Reynolds' ' Sjstem of Medicine/ t. i, p. 169. SPINAL PARALYSIS OF THE ADULT. 145 clinical connexion between certain paraplegias, of abrupt invasion followed by muscular atrophy, developed in youth or in adult age, and the paralysis of young children....
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