Paralyses : cerebral, bulbar and spinal : a manual of diagnosis for students and practitioners / by H. Charlton Bastian.

Date:
1886
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Credit: Paralyses : cerebral, bulbar and spinal : a manual of diagnosis for students and practitioners / by H. Charlton Bastian. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    PREFACE. This work is intended as an aid to tlie student or medical prac- titioner when brought face to face with cases of paralysis o£ different kinds. In special treatises all that is known of the several forms of paralysis may be set forth in the fullest manner. That is not what has been aimed at here. The author's endeavour throughout has been to facilitate diagnosis—to explain and gather up the essential points to be borne in mind by the student or practitioner when he is called upon to decide as to the nature of, and give a prognosis concerning, any case of paralysis that may come before him. The various forms of paralysis from brain disease, from disease of the bulb, and from disease of the spinal cord are now so numerous, and so many recent advances have been made to our knowledge in these directions, that some such aid to diagnosis may well be looked for by those for whom this work is intended. The signs of paralysis of the different cranial nerves have been pretty fully dealt with, because the recognition of such paralyses, either alone or in association with paralysis in other parts, is often a matter of the greatest importance. A knowledge of nervous diseases of the kind now looked for cannot be attained without something more than a superficial acquaintance with the anatomy and physiology of the brain and spinal cord: hence the plenitude of anatomical details, more especially, which are absolutely essential in a work like the
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