The diagnosis of nervous diseases.

  • Purves-Stewart, James, Sir.
Date:
1906
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    observe that facio-cmral monoplegia mthout implication of the arm is impossible from a single lesion.) For the production of a complete, hemiplegia of face, arm, and leg there must be a very ex- tensive cortical lesion. But in the internal capsule all these strands Fig. 6.—Horizontal section throngh right cerebral hemisphere, showing position of the various strands in the internal capsule. (After Beevor and Horsier.) are closely crowded together, so that a moderate-sized capsular lesion can produce a complete hemiplegia, whilst a capsular lesion sraall enough to cause a mere monoplegia is well-nigh impossible. If the capsular lesion be in the region of the genu we have hemiplegia of face, arm, and leg. And moreover, from paralysis of the muscles which rotate the head and eyes to the opposite side, the patient has conjugate deviation of the head and eyes