. A text-book of medicine for students and practitioners . reported by Ham-mond were, most of them,made in cases of epilepsy,or in severe psychoses, andthe like. [In Hammondsoriginal case tlic athetosiswas syiiiptoiiiatic and dueto a lesion involving theo])tii- thalanms, the len-ticular nucleus, and themost posterior portion ofthe internal capsule.—K.]By far the most frequentsource of the phenomenon,however, is hemiplegia,producing what is knownas posthemiplegic chorea,or, rather, posthemiplegichemiathetosis. This is, tobe sure, a very rare secjuelto the ordinary hemiplegiaof elderly persons,
. A text-book of medicine for students and practitioners . reported by Ham-mond were, most of them,made in cases of epilepsy,or in severe psychoses, andthe like. [In Hammondsoriginal case tlic athetosiswas syiiiptoiiiatic and dueto a lesion involving theo])tii- thalanms, the len-ticular nucleus, and themost posterior portion ofthe internal capsule.—K.]By far the most frequentsource of the phenomenon,however, is hemiplegia,producing what is knownas posthemiplegic chorea,or, rather, posthemiplegichemiathetosis. This is, tobe sure, a very rare secjuelto the ordinary hemiplegiaof elderly persons, butIollows ([uite fre(|iientlycerehral infantile paralysis(vide page -V^-l ). Someliaces of athetosis are seenin a majority of the casesof infantile hemiplegia. idiopathic athetosis israre. Here the peculiarmovements are the chief,if not the sole, symptomof disease. A few casesof this sort have heeii Ic-poited where the athetosis began without known cause, and usually was lim-ited to some one region. It attacked elderly individuals who were ]u-eviously. m
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