Muscular hypertonicity in paralysis : being the opening of a discussion on the subject, at the Neurological Society of London, July 7, 1887 / by A. Hughes Bennett.

  • Alexander Hughes Bennett
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1887
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Credit: Muscular hypertonicity in paralysis : being the opening of a discussion on the subject, at the Neurological Society of London, July 7, 1887 / by A. Hughes Bennett. 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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    b 14DEC__,. OOTOBEE, 1887. kV ' t MUSCULAR HYPERTONICITY IN PARALYSIS. BY A. HUGHES BENNETT, M.D. Having been requested by the Council of the Neurological Society to provide a subject for consideration at the present meeting, I have selected one, which will require no advocacy on my part to ensure an interesting and profitable discussion. The morbid condition which, will form the basis of this communication is of sufficiently frequent occurrence to render its study instructive to the practical physician, and.the ex- planations of its phenomena are so contradictory and obscure, that their investigation. will prove equally attractive to the speculative pathologist. A problem which is at the same time practical and scientific, which almost daily comes before us only to baffle our efforts at solution, is obviously well- adapted for the deliberation of a congress of medical experts. My duty in opening the debate will simply be to lay the case before you, to indicate the difficulties of the position, and to invite discussion thereupon. I trust that those who follow me will in some measure illuminate the darkness into which I am about to grope my way, not without feelings of considerable insecurity. The general subject which it has been suggested I should lay before you is the apparently paradoxical coiulitiou of increased muscular tonicity as associated with motor weakness —a question in its entirety so vast, that it would be hopeless for me to attempt to coyer theWhole ground in the. time at VOL. X. -g
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