A treatise on the diseases of the nervous system . 22, Case XXII. SPINAL PARALYSIS OF ADULTS. 503 curing atrophy ; the hypodermic injections of strychnia in gradually-increasing doses, till the physiological effects of the drug are produced,when the doses should be diminished, and again increased, and so on ;and repeated applications of the actual cautery to the spine. Relative to this latter agent, my method consists in first applyingthe ether-spray over the part to be cauterized, and using the platinum-tipped iron brought, by means of an alcohol-lamp, or a Bunsens burner,to a white heat. Thr
A treatise on the diseases of the nervous system . 22, Case XXII. SPINAL PARALYSIS OF ADULTS. 503 curing atrophy ; the hypodermic injections of strychnia in gradually-increasing doses, till the physiological effects of the drug are produced,when the doses should be diminished, and again increased, and so on ;and repeated applications of the actual cautery to the spine. Relative to this latter agent, my method consists in first applyingthe ether-spray over the part to be cauterized, and using the platinum-tipped iron brought, by means of an alcohol-lamp, or a Bunsens burner,to a white heat. Three or four applications are made at one sitting oneach side of the spinous processes, and over the part which is in physio-logical relation with the paralyzed regions. I have never seen a case of spinal paralysis of adults which was en-tirely unamenable to this treatment, and the majority recover the accompanying woodcut (Fig. 50) is the exact appearance of thelegs of a woman who consulted me September 20, 1874, and who had Fig. suffered an attack of the disease under consideration some three yearspreviously. As will be seen, the calves are atrophied to an extremedegree, and her walking was correspondingly impaired. She was treat-ed with the galvanic current in the first place, and subsequently withthe faradaic. Strychnia was injected into the limbs daily, according tothe method mentioned, beginning with the thirtieth of a grain, and theactual cautery was applied to the lower dorsal and upper lumbar regionof the spine six times. In less than three months she could walk as 504 DISEASES OF THE SPINAL CORD. well as she ever did, and her calves, from having measured each onlyeleven and a half inches at their largest circumference, had increasedto fifteen inches in the right, and fifteen and a half in the left. Electricity has been very generally employed by those physicianswho have recognized the disease in question. Thus Bernhardt reportsa case of recovery mainl
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