Facial paralysis, congenital, unilateral and of unique distribution / by F.W. Langdon.

  • Langdon, Frank Warren, 1852-1933.
Date:
1899
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Credit: Facial paralysis, congenital, unilateral and of unique distribution / by F.W. Langdon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    FACIAL PARALYSIS, CONGENITAL*, UNI- LATERAL AND OF* UNIQUE DISTRIBUTION.* By F. W. Langdon, M. D., of Cincinnati. A. F. L., thirty-three, Kentuckian, single, was born and grew to maturity on a farm. For the past five years he has been a professional nurse employed most of the time as an attendant in hospitals for the insane. In January, 1899, he pre- sented himself to me for advice regarding some nervous weak- ness following la grippe, when I noted that he had a facial palsy of unusual type. The movements of the lower facial group were almost intact, whereas the left upper face presented a marked lagophthalmos and total absence of occipito-frontalis action. On inquiry as to the duration of the paralysis he informed me that it had existed from birth, and that he was told by his mother that he had been “born so.” The Family History does not seem to throw much light on his defect. His mother was over sixty at her death which was due to cancer. His father is living at sixty-five and generally healthy with the exception of occasional “neuralgic” pains in his head. Of his fourteen brothers and sisters, one brother died at twenty after having been a paraplegic for a year; one sister died at fifteen of dropsy; three other children of the family died in infancy from unknown causes. The nine living brothers and sisters are said to be healthy, excepting that one has had inflammatory rheumatism. With the excep- tion of the paraplegia above noted, no nervous disease or de- formity is known amongst the other children. Personal History. The physician who officiated at his birth *Read at the twenty-fifth annual meeting of the American Neu- rological Association, June 14 and 15, 1899.