File:Nervous and mental diseases (1919) (14778536831).jpg

Identifier: nervousmentaldis00chu (find matches)
Title: Nervous and mental diseases
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Church, Archibald, b. 1861 Peterson, Frederick, 1859-1938, joint author
Subjects: Nervous system Mental illness
Publisher: Philadelphia, London, W.B. Saunders company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
Fig. 175.—A mixed case showing fa-cioscapulohumeral involvement, peronealwasting, and a foot deformity similar tothat of Friedreichs disease. There werefibrillary twitchings and the reaction ofdegeneration in the leg muscles. LESIONS AND DISEASES OF SPINAL GRAY. 425 in one to four years. The movements and control of the hip-joints arefirst affected, followed by feebleness of the muscles of the back and abdo-men, then of the neck and shoulders. Later the atrophy and paralysisaffect the arms and forearms, so that the child is rendered quite helpless.The facial, buccal, and faucial parts are not implicated. Death ensuesfrom res))iratory feebleness and pulmonary complications.
Text Appearing After Image:
Iigs. 176,177, and 178.—Case of the neuritic variety of family progressive myopathy. Oppenheim, in 1900, described a condition of congenital amyotonia(amyotonia congenita) which shows the same condition of the muscles asthe family myojuithies, but rarely presents family or hereditary traits.To distiuiruish it from Thomsens disease, Haberman ^ proposes thename congenital atonic pseudoparalysis. It is congenital or may sud-denly appear after infections. The reflexes are lost from the first, far-adic sensibility is commonly greatly reduced, the distribution of muscularweakness spares the di.^tal portions of tlie limbs, and there is little or notendency for it to spread. Some cases recover, and most show some im-provement. Two postmortem examinations by Baudoin and Collier re- 1 Am. Jour. Med. Sci., Mar., 1910. 426 DISEASES OF THE CORD PROPER. spectively showed ^ atrophy of portions of the anterior horns and nerve-roots ; one by Spiller showed no such changes. Several of these forms may

Note About Images