. Annual of the universal medical sciences. erapeutics. body; but, forty hours after the operation, the first vohmtarymovements of the formerly paralyzed muscles (glutei) couldalready be observed, and, later, after five days, motion of the toesreturned; seven weeks after tlie accident he was first able to leavehis bed, and, very soon after that, could walk around with butlittle difficulty. Writers call attention to the fact that in allsimilar cases the disturbance of sensibility offers the surest indi-cation for the localization of the injury to the spinal cord,—tliat isto say, according to th
. Annual of the universal medical sciences. erapeutics. body; but, forty hours after the operation, the first vohmtarymovements of the formerly paralyzed muscles (glutei) couldalready be observed, and, later, after five days, motion of the toesreturned; seven weeks after tlie accident he was first able to leavehis bed, and, very soon after that, could walk around with butlittle difficulty. Writers call attention to the fact that in allsimilar cases the disturbance of sensibility offers the surest indi-cation for the localization of the injury to the spinal cord,—tliat isto say, according to the upper boundary of this disturbance. It isalso noticeable that this boundary, in tlie region of the upper tho-rax, does not generally correspond to the course of the ribs, buttakes a more transverse direction. A number of other observationsconcerning surgical operations on the spinal cord have alreadybeen mentioned, under Tumors, pages 1 and 2; while the sub-ject is treated at length in vol. iii. Section A, of this issue of the Al^ BoNXJzzis Method of Performing Extension.(Wiener medizinische Iresse.) PERIPHERAL NERVOUS DISEASES, MUSCULAR DYS-TROPHIES, AND GENERAL NEUROSES. By a. BOURNEYILLE, , AND PAUL SOLLIER, , CEPHALALGIA. Jules Simon, of Paris, ,,iJo% distinguishes, from the cephalalgiadescribed under tlie name of the headaches of growth, a certainnumber of cases which have no connection with organic evolution,such as those of dyspeptic origin, appearing after meals ; those con-nected with neuropathic conditions, such as hysteria, epilepsy, andchorea. In these latter cases the isolation of the child from itshabitual surroundings is the best treatment. He also notes rheu-matic headaches and those caused by intoxication. Navarre, of Lyons, ^^l\ observed a case of hemicrania for elevenyears, in which the attacks were accompanied by anuria, andsupervened exactly fifteen hours after every error in regimen ; theautlior attributes them to an alimentary auto-intox
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