Virginia medical monthly . sts to attack the septum with burrs,drills, saws or punches whenever there was the slightest devia-tion from a normal condition. He advocates leaving the sep-tum alone and not subjecting the nose to so severe a trauma-tism whenever nasal ventilation and drainage can be re-stored without such operations, and in most cases of de-flected septum this can be done by shrinkage or removal ofthe accompanying hypertrophy of the turbinated Record of Five Cases of Hemiplegia, Was the title of a paper presented by Dr. W. W. Tompkins,of Charleston , W. Va. He reports
Virginia medical monthly . sts to attack the septum with burrs,drills, saws or punches whenever there was the slightest devia-tion from a normal condition. He advocates leaving the sep-tum alone and not subjecting the nose to so severe a trauma-tism whenever nasal ventilation and drainage can be re-stored without such operations, and in most cases of de-flected septum this can be done by shrinkage or removal ofthe accompanying hypertrophy of the turbinated Record of Five Cases of Hemiplegia, Was the title of a paper presented by Dr. W. W. Tompkins,of Charleston , W. Va. He reports five cases of hemiplegiathat were treated by himself. Of this number, two died, twomade perfect recoveries and one is now convalescing andunder treatment. The ages of the cases were from 26 years—the youngest—to 58 years—the oldest. Four of the caseswere men, one a female. Four were whites—all Americans;one a negro. All were unmarried but one—a man of fiftyyears of age, the father of twelve children. Season seems. PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 397 to-have had nothing specially to do with the attacks. Theywere most frequent in the warm months, but no two occurredin the same month. All were sober and industrious exceptone, who was a hard and constant drinker. Four of themwere without education, the other one was merely able to readand write. There was no premonition of attack in any of the five the cases were sudden and without warning. No gastrictrouble, headache or comfusion of ideas seem to have pre-ceded the attack. All the attacks occurred in the day—none at night. Only one of the cases was engaged at workat the time the seizure occurred. Those having the hemi-plegia on the right side died; those affected on the left gotwelL Aphasia existed in all the cases. In some it wasmarked and constant; in the others light and paralysis was of motion only; in no case was sensationlost. Those cases that died never recovered speech. In thosecases that rec
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