. A treatise on nervous and mental diseases, for students and practitioners of medicine. thoughmost of the cases have a preponderance of motor symptoms. A classification of these paralyses by the motor symptoms is asfollows: Hemiplegia ; Bilateral hemiplegia or diplegia ; Paraplegia Hemiplegia generally occurs during the first three years of such cases the face is not always affected, and when it is, theupper portion (the eyelids and brow) is not involved. Figs. 144 and145 represent a hemiplegia which had its onset in a boy five yearsbefore the photograph was taken. His face is keen an
. A treatise on nervous and mental diseases, for students and practitioners of medicine. thoughmost of the cases have a preponderance of motor symptoms. A classification of these paralyses by the motor symptoms is asfollows: Hemiplegia ; Bilateral hemiplegia or diplegia ; Paraplegia Hemiplegia generally occurs during the first three years of such cases the face is not always affected, and when it is, theupper portion (the eyelids and brow) is not involved. Figs. 144 and145 represent a hemiplegia which had its onset in a boy five yearsbefore the photograph was taken. His face is keen and intelligent,and the only mental defect in his case was that he was good-naturedlyuncontrollable and difficult to teach for about two years after theonset; but since this period he has been as intelligent as the other DISEASES OF THE CEREBRUM. 303 *children of the same family—an excellent test, by-the-by, of a childsmental stature. The name of birth-palsies has been suggested by Gowers for con-genital bilateral hemiplegia or diplegia which result from pre-natal Fig. 144. Fig.
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