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Title: A treatise on the nervous diseases of children, for physicians and students
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Sachs, Bernard, 1858-1944
Subjects: Nervous system Children
Publisher: New York, W. Wood and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Fig. 91. — Second Brother, aged Thirteen anda Half Years, exhibiting Hypertrophy ofCalves, of Gluteal Muscles, and of Musclesabout the Shoulder Girdle ; Distinct Atrophyof Arm Muscles (Erbs Type, or JuvenileForm of Progressive Muscular Atrophy).All the muscles are now beginning to atro-phy ; boy is only a little less helpless than hisolder brother. 372 THE NERVOUS DISEASES OF CHILDREN. and more helpless, is unable to stand or to walk, becomeseither bedridden, or is compelled to sit in a chair and evenloses the use of the upper extremities ; is not able to raise
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Fig. 92.—Youngest of the Three Brothers, in the Earlier Stage of Pseudo-Hypertrophy.(For the photographs of this boy I am indebted to the courtesy of Dr. Collins.) the arms, and may have no use of any of the muscles, exceptthe small muscles of the hand. In the two boys (Figs. 90,91) under my observation, a climbing up of the hand along PROGRESSIVE MUSCULAR ATROPHIES. 373 the head in order to get the arm into the erect position wasa very characteristic feature. In addition to the hypertrophy of the calf muscles, wenow know that there is apt to be atrophy of the muscles ofthe thigh, of the arm, and the shoulders ; the scapular raus-

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