A man in a t-shirt but no trousers, walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

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<p>"The gait in locomotor ataxia. This gait was studied in Plates 546, 549, 550, 554, and 560. All of the cases photographed were typical of locomotor ataxia. The patient upon whom the trajectories were studied is the one of Plate 560. His history is briefly as follows: H. R., aged thirty-four, a clerk by occupation, first noticed that his general health was failing in the fall of 1883. He was at first treated for general neurasthenia, but soon developed sciatic pains and gastric crises. These last were very severe. He then disappeared from observation for two years. When he again returned he was markedly ataxic, both in the arms and legs. He had parasthesia of the soles of the feet, contracted pupils, loss of the patellar reflex, retardation of sensation, etc. …"--Dercum, loc. cit.</p>

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A man in a t-shirt but no trousers, walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

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