The student's guide to medical case-taking / by Francis Warner.

Date:
1881
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Credit: The student's guide to medical case-taking / by Francis Warner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MOTOR POWER 1 May be lessened from general weakness or be lost in one or two extremities only, or in a certain group of muscles. See Paralysis. .Movements of upj^er and lower extremities.—Palsy of vipper extremity, if of cerebral origin, is usually accompanied by weakening of lower extremity. Let patient move limbs to order ; Uft weights ; pick up a pin, etc, . Movements of head and trunk.—Motor power over spine may be lost from caries of spine. Pseudo-hypertrophic Paralysis. View spine ; feel for curvatures. Respiratory movements.—Cheyne's respiration = a series of respirations hurried and deep up to a certain point, then subsiding to a dead pause. Co-ordination of the limbs.—If defective, examine joints. Sciatica. Spasms. Tremors. Paraplegia. Chorea. In Paralysis Agitans there is a tendency to propidsion or retropulaion. In General Paralysis, stiunbling and staggering, or tottering. In Ataxy, muscular power in the legs is not lost; the patient may walk, feeling the groimd with a stick. In Hemiplegia the patient in walking swings round the leg, and then keeping it stiff balances the trunk upon it. B