A contribution to the study of myelitis / by S.G. Webber.

  • Samuel Gilbert Webber
Date:
1875
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Credit: A contribution to the study of myelitis / by S.G. Webber. 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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    A CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY OF MYELITIS. By S. G. WEBBEE, M.D., Boston. Dr. SEGUiisr, in his paper on Spinal Paralysis, referring to the lesion found in Gombault's case, says, We can not avoid concluding that the spinal paralysis of adults, in any one of its forms, depends upon degeneration of anterior ganglion cells. Whether this degeneration^ of the ganglion cells is the only leiion in spinal paralysis, is a question to be solved only by future autopsies. The following case proves, I think, that other parts than the anterior ganglion cells are affected. I was-asked. May 9th, 1874, by Dr. Tarbell, of Boston, to see a patient in consultation. I found a young man, C. A. G,,. 24 years old, who gave an account of his condition as follows: In March, 18T3, while at work at his trade as a masou, he fell about fifteen or twenty feet, striking his hip on an iron kettle, and cutting the right side of his forehead. lie was laid up for a few days, but was soon out again, and thought nothing of the accident. He did not remember having any pain or unusiuxl sensation till July. lie then noticed a weakness in his left knee, and soon the left leg gave out altogether, and he went on crutches. After some time, the right thumb became weak, tlien the right leg, then both hands and arms. At no time had he pain or any unusual sensation, excepting, the evening of my visit, a headache. The only symptoms acknowledged were in- creasing weakness and wasting, the wasting not appearing till
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