Organic and functional nervous diseases; a text-book of neurology . Extreme atrophy of the thenar, hypothenar, and interosseimuscles of the hands in amyotrophiclateral sclerosis. (Dejerine.) thesia or parsesthesia. The bladder and rectum are not in any wayaffected. In this condition of partial paralysis the patient may remain forseveral months, the disease coming to a standstill, or the disease maygo on progressively. One patient in my clinic remained in a station-ary state for four years after all these symptoms had developed. Ifit progresses the spastic rigidity of the legs becomes so intens
Organic and functional nervous diseases; a text-book of neurology . Extreme atrophy of the thenar, hypothenar, and interosseimuscles of the hands in amyotrophiclateral sclerosis. (Dejerine.) thesia or parsesthesia. The bladder and rectum are not in any wayaffected. In this condition of partial paralysis the patient may remain forseveral months, the disease coming to a standstill, or the disease maygo on progressively. One patient in my clinic remained in a station-ary state for four years after all these symptoms had developed. Ifit progresses the spastic rigidity of the legs becomes so intense thatwalking is impossible, and the patient is confined to the bed. Thenthe muscles which have hitherto been rigid begin to atrophy, and toshow fibrillary twitchings, and the spastic paraplegia is succeeded bya flaccid paralysis quite similar to that which has appeared from theoutset in the hands and arms. Sometimes the paralysis extends from the upper extremities to theneck, the head falls forward, the chin resting on the sternum, and thehead cannot be raised o
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