Various forms of hysterical or functional paralysis / by H. Charlton Bastian.
- Henry Charlton Bastian
- Date:
- 1893
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Various forms of hysterical or functional paralysis / by H. Charlton Bastian. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![FUNCTIONAL PARALYSIS OF SPINAL TYPE. PAGE {A) Oases of Spastic Type due to Functional Perveksion OR Defect in the Pyramidal System op Fibres in THE Spinal Cord 57 Case 9.—F., est. 33, single. After fatigues from nursing, together with family troubles and anwietij, increasing weakness of lower extremities, beginning five years ago. Now jjaresis of both lower extremities, with exaggerated deep reflexes. No offection of sensibility. Slight nystagmoid jerkings. Some improvement after a brief treatment . . . .59 Case 10.—F., cet. 22, single. Weakiiess of lower extremities foxur years ago ; sxcbsequent recover]). Continued well till twelve months before seen, when legs again became weak, and after a time rigid with exaggerated deep reflexes. No vertebral disease. Mtcch loss of sensibility over legs and loiver part of trunk. Began to walk again after eighteen months. Slow progress. Menorrhagia. Recovery from paralysis . . .60 Case 11.—M.,cet.2^. Pott's disease. Fall; aggravation of condition ; and soon sensory and motor paralysis of lower extremities. Incontinence of urine and of fceces. Rigidity and exaggerated deep reflexes in legs. Gradtial recovery; able to walk again after fifteen months in Jiospital. Paralysis of sphincters contimiitig. Pleurisy with effusion . .67 Case 12.—F., cet. 39, married. Abscesses in chest wall; worry; xoeakness of left leg. After some weeks sudden paralysis of both loiver extremities ; with impaii'ed sensibility, rigidity, and exaggerated deep reflexes. Irritability of bladder a/nd rectum. Paralysis absolute for two years ; two small bed sores during this time. During last eight years slow improvement, till Influenza six months ago . . . . .72 Case 13.—F, est. 24, single. Illness began seven years before first seen with weakness in right arm, then in leg, and after one year right hemiancBsthesia. Later left arm and leg suffered in same leay. Loss of muscular sense i7i all limbs. Paralysis partial; deep reflexes exag- gerated. Deviation of tongue to right. Nystagmoid movements off and on. Subsequently more paresis and much rigidity of limbs, especially on right side. Partial recovery fifteen years from date of onset . . .74 Case 14.—F., cet. 21, single. Two years since slight blood poisoning and some mental trouble. Soon numbness of right hand; followed by weakiiess and then rigidity of right leg. Temporary improvement till some months after an attack of Influenza, and a sprain of left ankle; after this the left upper and then the lower extremity became affected as the right had been, and right limbs became worse again. Soon partial paralysis of both legs and impaired sensibility. Irritability of bladder and rectum; occasional incontinence of fceces. Occasional diplopia; slight nystagmus. Exaggerated deep reflexes. Partial improvement under treatment ........... 80 h](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21040229_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
