Tumors of the cerebellum / by Charles K. Mills [and others].

Date:
1905
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Credit: Tumors of the cerebellum / by Charles K. Mills [and others]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which the mouth was drawn forcibly to the left and the eyelids were drawn together. Only the left side of the face was involved in the seizure. Examination showed that she had no ataxia of station or gait. Hearing on the right side was good, on the left side it was abolished. The mouth deviated slightly to the left when opened widely. Hypzsthesia to pain was present on the left side of the face and head, and sometimes ap- peared to be present in the left hand. The pa- tient was not mentally impaired, but was easily exhausted mentally, and was at times irritable and depressed as the result of her sufferings. During the time she was under observation she had frequently recurring headaches, usually se- vere, sometimes accompanied with nausea or even vomiting, and sometimes with the facial spasm already described. Irregular nystagmoid move- ments occurred when the patient turned the eye- balls to the extreme right or left. She had com- plete loss of smell, and loss of taste on the left side of the tongue. On one occasion it was thought that the facial spasm was accompanied by some spasmodic movements of the left hand, but this was doubtful, and even the observer thought it may have been a voluntary movement. The question of the existence of exophthalmic goitre was one which arose for diagnostic dis- cussion several times during the history of this case. The diagnosis of this affection was first made a year or two before coming under our ob- servation. It was also considered and favorably regarded by some of those who saw her in con-