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

  • Roberts, Sir William, 1830-1899.
Date:
1858
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Credit: An essay on wasting palsy (Cruveilhier's atrophy) / by William Roberts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    self among my out-patients on the 16tli of August, ] 856, stating that slie had lost the use of her arms. As she stood before me in her ordinary servant's attire, it would have been difficult to associate with a frame apparently so well-developed and strong, and a complexion so rosy, any ideas save those of robust health; but, when her upper clothing was removed, a simple glance revealed a state of things, sufficient to explain the incapacity of which she complained. The muscles of the shoulders were the seat of extensive and far- advanced atrophy. She gave the following ac- count of herself:—Prom infancy she had enjoyed uninterrupted health, and she could not call to mind any circumstance, that might have acted de- leteriously upon her muscular system. Engaged as a domestic servant, she had always been well fed and lodged; and the work apportioned to her had not been more than what she could easily accomplish. The closest enquiry failed to detect any unusual labour or fatigue occurring about the time her arms began to decline in strength. She had never been in the way of any plumbeous emana- tions. The catamenia made their first appearance at fifteen, and their recurrence has continued tolerably regular ever since. She has had inter- ruptions five or six times, but they never ex- tended beyond a single period. It is now eighteen months since she perceived a weakness in the right shoulder. It was first brought under her notice by inability to reach G