Clinical lectures on certain diseases of the nervous system / by J.M. Charcot ; translated by E.P. Hurd.

  • Hurd E. P. (Edward Payson), 1838-1899.
Date:
1888
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    42. Clinical and anatomopathological researches on cerebral ramollissement and encephalitis. This work, made with the assistance of Vulpian, first brings out the fundamental distinction between cerebral ram- ollissement and encephalitis, the former being due to ischaemia rather than to congestion. The precursory symptoms are dif- ferent; dizziness and mental enfeeblement characterize ramol- lissement, delirium, convulsions, contractures, belong more particularly to encephalitis. The tardy contracture so frequent in the paralyzed limbs of patients suffering from old ramol- lissement is to be referred to consecutive lesion of the spinal cord (secondary descending sclerosis.) According to Charcot, conservation of consciousness with sudden invasion of paralysis belongs rather to ramollissement; variable hemiplegia belongs to it exclusively, and aphasia almost exclusively. 43. New Researches on the Pathogeny of Cerebral Hemor- rhage.—In collaboration with M. Bouchard. English transla- tion by T. S. Maclagan, 1872. In this work, founded on a multitude of observations, cerebral hemorrhage, particularly in the aged, is referred to rupture of aneurisms of the small arteries of the cerebral sub- stance. These aneurisms are a millimetre or more in size, and have never been wanting in any case of cerebral hemor- rhage observed by Professor Charcot. 44. On secondary degenerations of the spinal cold, 1859. (In common with M. Vulpian.) Cruveilhier and Turck had already called attention to these degenerations as consecutive to lesions of the hemispheres, and Charcot and Vulpian in this memoir add a number of facts confirmatory of the observations of the German pathologists. The subject is presented by them in a new and clearer light, with considerable additions to our knowledge; they also record similar degenerations following lesions en foyer of the spinal cord. 45. (a) Localization in Diseases of the Cerebrum, (b) Study of motor localizations in the cortex.