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Title: Interstate medical journal
Year: 1917 (1910s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: St. Louis, : Interstate Medical Journal
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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inent, the enlargement being lateral and anterior. Her appetitewas poor, and at times she suffered from diarrhea, and passed largequantities of urine. Any exertion, even walking to another room,caused more or less dyspnea. Her skin perspired easily. Therewas considerable general tremor, and choreiform movements oneffort. The muscular weakness was apparent, as the patients legswould give way when she attempted to walk; in fact, she couldnot walk on a straight line nor perform the Romberg test becauseof this weakness. The deep reflexes were all increased; the eye-balls were prominent, the pupils dilated, and on testing with fiash- *Read before the meeting of the Alienists and Neurologists, Chicago, July, 1917. 1172 INTERSTATE MEDICAL JOURNAL light there was a quick response to light, but pupils would nothold down. A vibratory tremor of the eyeballs was noticed ontesting for the fields of vision. Mentally she was in a state ofgreat anxiety regarding her condition, and at times would cry.
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Fig. 1. Fig. 2. Fig. 3. Case I.—Fig. 1, 1910; weight, 240 pounds. Fig. 2, February 15, 1915; weight, 97pounds. Fig. 3, April, 1915; returning to normal.

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