Paralyses : cerebral, bulbar and spinal : a manual of diagnosis for students and practitioners / by H. Charlton Bastian.

Date:
1886
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Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    As in progressive muscular atrophy, so in pseudo-hypertrophic paralysis, we have to do not with a real paralysis, but rather with a progressive paresis that increases pari j>assu with the atrophy oc- curring in the muscular fibres themselves. The°disease is hereditary and is much more frequently transmitted through the female than through the male side of the family, though it is actually much more common in boys than it is in girls. Nothing else concerning the etiology of the disease can be said to be known. It is only very rarely that cases are met with in adults. According to Gowers, out of 139 recorded cases, 123 were males and only 16 females. He found that one-half of the male cases had occurred before the sixth year, and about three-fourths of them before the tenth year. In the females, however, one-half of the cases com- menced after the tenth year. Fig. 132. Fig. 133. PHiED [lifter Duchenue].