A case of bilateral paralysis of facial and auditory nerves, with left hemiplegia, in the secondary stage of syphilis / by James Carslaw, M.A., M.B., C.M., Assistant to the Professor of Medicine and Clinical Medicine, Glasgow University.

  • Carslaw, James.
Date:
[1897?]
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Credit: A case of bilateral paralysis of facial and auditory nerves, with left hemiplegia, in the secondary stage of syphilis / by James Carslaw, M.A., M.B., C.M., Assistant to the Professor of Medicine and Clinical Medicine, Glasgow University. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    while galvanic irritability of the nerves was lost, that of the muscles was distinctly increased. However, there was no serial change, KCC always preceding ACC and AOC\ but, while testing, the contractions of the muscles were noticed to be exceedingly slow and long drawn out. Fio. 1.—Bilateral Facial Paralysis (attempting to close the eyes). Photograph of J. C. by Dr. A. W. Russell.—April 19th, 1894. He was not conscious of being deaf or of any unnatural noises in the ears, and never had had any discharge from his ears. But the result of testing his hearing with the watch was P 2 R = jp:, P = jri, while with the tuning-fork air conduction 4U 4U was in excess of bone conduction, from which Dr. Barr, who examined the patient, inferred that the source of the deafness was in the nervous apparatus. One or two attempts a 2 were