Volume 2

Clinical lectures on the diseases of the nervous system : delivered at the infirmary of La Saltpêtrière / by J.M. Charcot ; translated by Thomas Savill.

  • Charcot, J. M. (Jean Martin), 1825-1893.
Date:
1889
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    PAGE Sudden death from rupture of transverse ligament of the odontoid process. Symptoms accompanying lesions of the lumbar enlargement and cauda equina ........ 108 LECTURE IX. INFANTILE PARALYSIS. Summary.—Spinal myopathies or myopathies of spinal origin. General characters. Localisation of spinal lesions in the anterior cornua of grey matter. Infantile spinal paralysis. To be considered as a disease for study. Symptoms. Period of invasion, its modes; second period or retro- gression of symptoms with localisation of muscular lesions (muscular atrophy, arrest of development of the osseous system, coldness of extremities, deformities, paralytic club-foot). Pathological anatomy of infantile paralysis. Lesions of muscles at different periods; fatty deposits. Lesions of the nervous system; history (Charcot and Cornil, Vulpian and Prevost, Charcot and Joffroy, Parrot, Lockhart Clarke and Johnson, Damaschino and Roger). Localisation of lesions in the anterior cornua of grey sub- stance. Secondary alterations; sclerous transformation of neuroglia; foci of disintegration; partial sclerosis of the antero-lateral columns; atrophy of the anterior roots. Reasons tending to demonstrate that the primary lesion resides in the nerve-cells . . . 125 LECTURE X. SPINAL PARALYSIS OP THE ADULT. NEW RESEARCHES CON- CERNING THE PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY OF INFANTILE SPINAL PARALYSIS. AMYOTROPHIES CONSECUTIYE ON ACUTE DIFFUSE SPINAL LESIONS. Summary.—Spinal paralysis of the adult. History. Description of a case, borrowed from M. Duchenne (de Boulogne). Personal facts. Close analogies connecting acute spinal paralysis of the adult with that of the child. Symptomatological modifications due to age. Prognosis. Recent works concerning the pathological anatomy and physiology of infantile spinal paralysis; they confirm in essential points, and com- plete in certain respects, the results already detailed. A word as to acute spinal lesions which are not, as in infantile paralysis,