Modern diagnosis and treatment of diseases of childern; a treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of infancy anf childhood . t more or less marked deformi-deformed. tjes Qf tjie thorax and spine, large abdomen, hernias and narrowHernia. Pelves. The genitalia are often undeveloped and malformed. The condition of the extremities varies in the different types cephalic- OI idiocy. The hydrocephile often suffers from paraplegia with paraplegia. Spastic rigidity of the muscles, and is thus unable either to walk or stand. The upper extremities are usually normal, and only occasionally affected
Modern diagnosis and treatment of diseases of childern; a treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of infancy anf childhood . t more or less marked deformi-deformed. tjes Qf tjie thorax and spine, large abdomen, hernias and narrowHernia. Pelves. The genitalia are often undeveloped and malformed. The condition of the extremities varies in the different types cephalic- OI idiocy. The hydrocephile often suffers from paraplegia with paraplegia. Spastic rigidity of the muscles, and is thus unable either to walk or stand. The upper extremities are usually normal, and only occasionally affected by contractures and athetotic move- IDIOCY. 579 ments. The microcephalic idiot is an extremely restless creature ^p£°jic_and rarely sits or stands still even if supported. Some few of Risidity-them are completely rigid, and others, when they grow older,man-age to walk about. The syphilitic, as a rule, are helpless, Syphilitic_principally as a result of deformities of the extremities and plrafysisrarefying and softening inflammatory processes at the articula-tions. The child walks as if paralyzed, if it can walk at all. The. 190.—Cretinic Idiot (8 years old). Note infantileappearance and tastes. (Sheffield.) Mongolian idiot begins to walk at a much later age than the Mongoiian- ° _ ° & plump normal baby. His joints are weak, and his hands and feet plump, extremitiesAmaurotic idiocy is characterized by muscular atony which salt,gradually terminates in general paralysis. The cretin has apeculiar dragging and awkward gait, and often presents deformi-ties of the extremities and thickening of the joints. Unilateral orbilateral hemiplegia with contracture and athetosis is patho-gnomonic of the paralytic idiot. Where one hemisphere isinvolved he lias a tottering gait. In infantilism the extremities Cretinic—dragginggait. Paralytic-Hemi- ordi-plegia. )8I i MENTAL DISEASES. are Backward and ipparently normal iflabby. A radiogr shape, but their musculature is weakm (see Figs. 194,
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