Text-book of nervous diseases : being a compendium for the use of students and practitioners of medicine / by Charles L. Dana.

  • Dana, Charles L. (Charles Loomis), 1852-1935.
Date:
1897
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    the course is relatively rapid, death occurring from the latter dis- ease in two or three years. Pathological Anatomy.—In all progressive cases there is a de- generative atrophy of the nuclear cells. In a few rare cases no lesion has been found, and in a few stationary cases the anatomical change is that of neuritis. The treatment is that for the disease which it complicates or the condition which causes it. That is to say, it is the treatment for locomotor ataxia, progressive muscular atrophy, syphilis, or lead Fig. 60.—Showing Hutchinson Face. Tjoisoning. Iodide of potassium, strychnine, arsenic, nitrate of silver, and phosphorus may be given. Electricity is of very doubt- ful value, and only the galvanic current would be indicated. Gen- eral tonic measures and rest to the eyes should be employed. Muscular Asthenopia and Muscular Insufficiencies.— This is a term employed to indicate a lack of equilibrium of the muscles of the eye, as a result of which the visual axes cannot be kept parallel without an effort. This effort is often unconscious, and shows itself only by a ready tiring of the eye on attempting to read, or by the production of headaches and cerebral paresthesia. Examination of the eye bj means of prisms reveals the special character of the trouble. When the eye muscles act normally the condition is called one