. A treatise on the nervous diseases of children : for physicians and students. ard or inward, very sudden loss of conscious-ness, involuntary passage of urine and faeces, prolongeddrowsiness, and a condition of stupor if not of coma. Themuscular movements may be tonic at first, but are apt tolead to clonic spasms. No two convulsive seizures areexactly alike, but the student who has seen a single seizurewill not forget the main features of the condition. The4 50 THE NERl^OUS DISEASES OF CHILDREN. convulsion may come on without warning, or the child mayhave complained of uncomiDrtable sensation
. A treatise on the nervous diseases of children : for physicians and students. ard or inward, very sudden loss of conscious-ness, involuntary passage of urine and faeces, prolongeddrowsiness, and a condition of stupor if not of coma. Themuscular movements may be tonic at first, but are apt tolead to clonic spasms. No two convulsive seizures areexactly alike, but the student who has seen a single seizurewill not forget the main features of the condition. The4 50 THE NERl^OUS DISEASES OF CHILDREN. convulsion may come on without warning, or the child mayhave complained of uncomiDrtable sensations in the head or:stomach, of a li wn intp tj^onic and clonic con-ar:t|a|i; or general, unilateral orbend at the elbow,id^^^^itcJh^lfs clenched, with thetm^m). The head is thrownback or rotated to^cyne-kiUe-rthe back may be arched, theface is pale at first, but soon reddens and the eyes remainwide open. The pupils do not react. In older childrenthe tongue may be caught between the teeth, and bloody :shrill cry and atYulsions. Thesbilateral. Thethe wrists arefingers firmly clo.
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