. A treatise on nervous and mental diseases, for students and practitioners of medicine. front VIkw.) (rear view.) Photographs of a hemiplegic boy of eight, showing difference between right (affected) and left(unaffected) sides five years after onset. causes or accidents occurring through excessive pressure ot the brainin ])artiirition. Fig. 14G represents such a case, with marked mentaldcicct, which is very evident in the childs vacant expression. 304 NERVOUS DISEASES. Paraplegia is usually a disease of early infantile life or is referableto abnormal conditions of tlie mother during pregnancy
. A treatise on nervous and mental diseases, for students and practitioners of medicine. front VIkw.) (rear view.) Photographs of a hemiplegic boy of eight, showing difference between right (affected) and left(unaffected) sides five years after onset. causes or accidents occurring through excessive pressure ot the brainin ])artiirition. Fig. 14G represents such a case, with marked mentaldcicct, which is very evident in the childs vacant expression. 304 NERVOUS DISEASES. Paraplegia is usually a disease of early infantile life or is referableto abnormal conditions of tlie mother during pregnancy. Contrac-ture of the paralyzed muscles is usually present in all these threeforms, few exceptions to this rule being observed. When limbsthus affected are subjected to movement, they oppose a soft wax-likeresistance, slowly yielding, and returning gradually to their formerposition when the compelling force is removed. Often there is abar-like rigidity of the lower extremities, which is well representedin Fig. 146. This can be easily evoked by handling the limb, Fig. 14fi.
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