Lectures on the diseases of the nervous system / Delivered at La Salpêtrière. By J.M. Charcot. 2d series. Translated and edited by George Sigerson.

  • Charcot, J. M. (Jean Martin), 1825-1893.
Date:
1881
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    CONTENTS. LECTURE I. ANATOMICAL INTRODUCTION. PAGE Summary.—The task of the clinical observer differs from that of the nosographer. Diversity of opinions concerning the seat of lesion in locomotor ataxia. Insufficiency of the methods of research employed. Sclerosis of the posterior columns: its significance, Appearances presented on examination by the naked eye. First cases of sclerosis of the posterior columns. Macroscopical examination.—Grey induration • its characters. Original focus of the irritative lesion. Microscopical examination.—Topographical anatomy. Spinal circum- scribed regions. Goll's column. External bands of posterior fasciculi; their alteration seems constant in locomotor ataxia. Systematic median fasciculated sclerosis. Lateral fasciculated sclerosis. In locomotor ataxia, sclerosis makes its first appearance in the postero-lateral bands. Relationship between lesions and symptoms. Manner in which sclerosis is propagated. Internal radicular fasciculi. Invasion of the anterior grey cornua; consecutive amyotrophy. . 3 LECTUEE II. RETROGRADE ACTION IN SPINAL DISEASES; ITS RELATION WITH SCLEROSIS OE THE POSTERIOR COLUMNS; LIGHT- NING PAINS AND GASTRIC CRISES. Summary.—Relations between the internal radicular nerve-filaments and the groups of multipolar nerve-cells of the anterior cornua. Recurrent or retrograde symptoms. Sclerosis of the posterior median bundles; propagation of the sclerosis to the lateral bands of the posterior columns.