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Identifier: diseasesofchildr00jaco (find matches)
Title: Diseases of children;
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Jacobi, A. (Abraham), 1830-1919
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Publisher: New York and London, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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isease but is always dependentupon other disturbances of health. Very likely the muscular rigidity hereunder consideration is only the consequence of nutritive disturbance or of toxicinfluences upon the spinal cord, which manifests itself toward the periphery in VARIETIES OF INFANTILE CONVULSIONS 415 the motor end organs of the nerves of the muscles in the manner previouslydescribed. The more severe the underlying affection and the longer its duration, themore intense are the tonic convulsions of the extremities. Thus we find themost marked grades of myotonia, with a convulsive picture resembling tetanus,in severe and prolonged diseases associated with a toxic condition of the cen-tral nervous system, as in gastrointestinal autointoxication, in severe cutaneousinflammation, burns, and in congenital syphilis, while in slight disturbancesof health, as a rule, only the fist phenomenon is present without persistentspasm. If the underlying affection is relieved the myotonic spasm dependent
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