On spasm, languor, palsy, and other disorders, termed nervous, of the muscular system / by James Arthur Wilson.

  • Wilson, James Arthur, 1795-1882.
Date:
1843
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    in the cracked angles of his lips, in a partial opacity of the cornea, and by other analogous symptoms, of a weak strumous habit of body. There is no state of the nervous system, in its structure or function, as generally understood, with which spAsm of the voluntary muscles, however violent, is not compatible. Cresar, great Julius, rose from earth-bound fits, again to command the world; and he, the foremost among living men, like C{?esar, in these unconscious struggles, still triumphs over himself. SPASM OF INFANTS. The spasm of inftmts always deserves our full and careful attention; for by it are expressed some of the worst forms of illness to which they are liable; yet there is much and frequent irregularity in the muscular contractions of veryyoung children, to which, though designated as convulsive, no serious conse- quence attaches. In the first months of infant exist- tence, the vital powers, if the expression may be used, appear to be determined principally to the structures by which, when complete in their function, the means of life are provided, and its end secured. The muscle, at this early period, maintains the most lively relations with the external agencies of matter, as with the internal business of the body. Its contractions are irregular, because uneducated; yet, without further prejudice to the functions of the brain than would be