Paralysis agitans and sarcoma : report of a case, with autopsy / by Charles L. Dana.

  • Dana, Charles L. (Charles Loomis), 1852-1935.
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[1899?]
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Credit: Paralysis agitans and sarcoma : report of a case, with autopsy / by Charles L. Dana. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES NOVEMBER, 1899. PARALYSIS AGITANS AND SARCOMA. REPORT OF A CASE, WITH AUTOPSY. By Charles L. Dana, M.D., OF NEW YORK. My interest in the pathology and pathological anatomy of paralysis agitans began some six years ago, when I read a paper before the Phila¬ delphia Neurological Society upon this subject, and reported the results of an examination of two cases, with autopsies.1 A third case was reported by me in the Post-Graduate for July, 1896, special neurological number, page 332. I recently, with the assistance of Dr. Fraenkel and Dr. Muskins, have been able to make a study of the pathological findings in a fourth case, and it is the result of this which I wish to submit. The patient was an inmate of the Montefiore Home, and most of the clinical study was made by Dr. Fraenkel, to whose notes I am indebted. The patho¬ logical examination was made by myself and by Dr. L. J. J. Muskins, who contributes some specially careful and laborious studies as to the degree of degenerative change in the cells. The history of the case is as follows: J. B., aged sixty-one years, occupation peddler, nativity Hungary, resident of the United States seventeen years. The family history shows us nothing of importance; father dying at sixty-seven, neither parent having any nervous or mental disease. The patient married at twenty-one, and had nine living and several still-born children ; had malaria, but denied syphilis, and had been moderate in the use of alcohol and tobacco. Present disease began in 1891, seven years before 1 Philadelphia Neurological Society, February 27,1893 ; New York Medical Journal, June 10, 1893. VOL. 118, NO. 5.—NOVEMBER, 1899.