An essay on wasting palsy (Cruveilhier's atrophy) / by William Roberts.

  • Roberts, Sir William, 1830-1899.
Date:
1858
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    M.M. Duclienne de Boulogne, Aran, and Thou- venet were aware of these observations. M. Duclienne,* who had then commenced those studies on the local application of electricity which have since borne such important fruits, occupied himself chiefly, in the memoir above alluded to, with the anatomical characteristics of the disease. He insisted that it was solely a lesion of nutri- tion characterised by atrophy and fatty trans- formation of the muscular fibre, and proposed the name AtropMe musculaire aveo transform- ation graisseuse. The Essay of M. Aranf is a most important one, and it entitles him to a place second only to Cruveilhier in the history of wasting palsy. It is based upon the facts of eleven cases, from the analysis of which he deduces, with rare skill, the course, symptoms, diagnosis, prognosis, and treat- ment—in short, the entire clinical history of the disease. He divides his cases into two classes, according as the atrophy is confined to the ex- tremities (eight cases); or threatens the muscles of the entire body (three cases.) He has the merit of having shown that the partial form passes by insensible gradations into tlio general, and that they are really one and the same disease. * The Memoir of M. Duchenne was presented in ] 849. An analysis of it may be fo\md at p. 622 of his work De F electri- sation localisee et de son application a la physiologic a la patho- logic et a la Therapeutique. 8vo., Paris, 1855. t Arch. Gen., Sept, 1850, p. 5, tome xxiv.; continued at r- 172.