. A text-book of medicine for students and practitioners . lity, the functions of the bladder, etc.,remain perfectly normal. Since we have mentioned the most important features common to allforms of dystrophy, we will pass to the description of the chief individualclinical types. We would emphasize the fact once more that transition formsbetween these types are by no means rare. 1. Pseudo-hypertrophy of the Muscles {Lipomatosis luxurians mus-cularis progressiva of Heller; Atrophia musculorum lipomatosa of Seidel).—Pseudo-hypertrophy is the rarest form of muscular dystrophy, but it was thefirst
. A text-book of medicine for students and practitioners . lity, the functions of the bladder, etc.,remain perfectly normal. Since we have mentioned the most important features common to allforms of dystrophy, we will pass to the description of the chief individualclinical types. We would emphasize the fact once more that transition formsbetween these types are by no means rare. 1. Pseudo-hypertrophy of the Muscles {Lipomatosis luxurians mus-cularis progressiva of Heller; Atrophia musculorum lipomatosa of Seidel).—Pseudo-hypertrophy is the rarest form of muscular dystrophy, but it was thefirst to become accurately known, on account of its striking aspect. It wasquite fully described in Germany l)y Griesinger (18G4), while in FranceDuchenne gave in 1868 a very complete clinical description of it. In 1866M. Eulenburg and Colmheim had already shown, by the careful anatomicalexamination of a case, that the nervous system remained perfectly normal,a statement which was confirmed by all subsequent investigations (Charcot,F. Schultze, and others)..
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