Organic and functional nervous diseases; a text-book of neurology . ry isfree from all evidence of cachexia orneurotic habit; she bad been marriedsince the age of twenty-one, but hashad no children ; she has been in ex-cellent health until the beginning ofthis disease — six years ago. The firstsymptoms noticed were formication feltin the tips of the fingers, particularly ofthe right hand, which gradually exten-ded upward to the shoulder; this numb-ness was associated with a slight clum-siness of movement and uncertaintyin tactile perception, although therehas never been and is not now anyactua
Organic and functional nervous diseases; a text-book of neurology . ry isfree from all evidence of cachexia orneurotic habit; she bad been marriedsince the age of twenty-one, but hashad no children ; she has been in ex-cellent health until the beginning ofthis disease — six years ago. The firstsymptoms noticed were formication feltin the tips of the fingers, particularly ofthe right hand, which gradually exten-ded upward to the shoulder; this numb-ness was associated with a slight clum-siness of movement and uncertaintyin tactile perception, although therehas never been and is not now anyactual anaesthesia, either of touch, temperature, or of pain, and themuscular sense is normal. She has never felt any of this numbnessin the legs or body, but she has noticed for the past five years a dis-turbance in the gait, consisting of an uncertainty in movement and asubjective feeling of weakness. During all this time there has beena slowly progressive enlargement of the head and neck, and at thesame time a gradual diminution in stature. Five jears ago she was. Chronic hereditary trophoedema of oneleg. (H. Meige, La pratique neurologique). EYPEBTBOPHT. 947 five feet, sevgn inches in height, now she is five feet two ; this short-ening is partly due to a stooping posture resembling that assumed inparalysis agitans, partly due to an apparent sinking of the head andneck between the shoulders, which causes a very peculiar appearance. Fig. 322.
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