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

Date:
1886
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    ENLAEGEMBNT OF THE SPINAL CoED falter Ross] ^^^ CEEVICAL wholly, fail to respond to the faradie current, and, after a time con- tractures begin to appear in the upper extremities. The skin' also niny become anaesthetic here and there in patches, and some of'these patches may extend so as to involve parts of the trunk. Later on, the lower extremities also become paralysed ; the deep reflexes are exaggerated, and, after a time, contractures become developed The muscles of the lower extremities do not become atrophied to any notable extent. This paralysis of the lower extremities is doubtless due to the changes m the spinal cord set up by the constricting pressure of the Ch . ot explains the rigidity of the muscles in accordance with his well known views on this subject-that is to say he suppose th transverse myelitis ' to give rise to descending degeneratlns o a Zl l nTV^^ ^'-where been Z . ! ^ , '^^^^^'^ of tWs rigidity is an ndication that the conducting functions of the cord t e n o cire^i:• ^-^-^ - -e cohZ of the pyramidal tracts in the lateral all'lil-elftoV' ^TT d---- -I-h are at ^ pachymeningitis W cancer of the dura mater opposite the cervical enlarc^e-