Pathological and practical researches on diseases of the brain and the spinal cord / by John Abercrombie.
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- 1845
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Credit: Pathological and practical researches on diseases of the brain and the spinal cord / by John Abercrombie. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![along the arm and leg ; the parts wasted, became cold, and lost their feeling ; but they retained such a degree of motion, that he could walk with the assistance of a crutch under the arm of the affected side. He had con- tinued in this state more than a year, when the left side became affected in the same manner. He was then confined to bed, and incapable of any motion, either of .the trunk or extremities, the other functions continuing for some time in a healthy state. Ilis sight and hearing were next aftected, being first weakened, and gradually destroyed. In the same gradual manner he lost his speech and the power of swallowing; and soon after this he died. The pulse and breathing had continued natural until a short time before death, when both be- came remarkably slow ; the pulse being from 30 to 40 in a minute. On dissection, the brain and all the yiscera, were found in the most healthy state. That part of the spinal cord which is included in the cervical vertebrae was so hard as to have the consistence of cartilage ; and the membranes of this portion were red as if inflamed.* SECTION YII. NEW FORMATIONS COMPRESSING THE SPINAL CORI>. These occur under the same variety of forms which have been already referred to in regard to the brain. The most common appear to be fleshy and albuminous formations, tubercles, hydatids, and ossifications. 1. A Avoman, aged 36, had first some convulsive motions, Avhich soon ceased ; then acute pain of the left arm witli headach; the arm became weak, and gradu- ally completely paralytic. She then had convulsive motions of the loiver extremities, which also became A5I0N Ot ^ fal. and the motion ]jgt, IbeinCeiioriTtreraiti' infenor ai: ofsense Mffljiieieiviiffi aril at k'l also kmtf ei)l jinpene then tool place on :-ddnaliy«han'tedsoiii fiomtheconiffieiiceraen' /wp;di(ia.-Onthe“ —jf the eo! taraor of a reddis lines in thickness; anterior surface noTfes to the tli ''Wch was core] Intemallv, the ti of the ierrf(i.« ''fiivecn (jj 111.1 •’•aUlCl ^'kcoi ’^as *111, in •ihout nrine j '^ocr ^dhe * Portal, Coins d'.'Vnatoniie Medicale, tom iv.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21959432_0390.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
