. A manual of diseases of the nervous system. mour was a spindle-celled sarcoma springing from the (After Leyden.) * The patient was a woman seventy-one years of age, paraplegic, with strongflexor contracture of the legs, loss of power over the sphincters, and considerableimpairment, but not absolute loss, of sensibility. The symptoms came on graduallysix years before death. (Lancereaux, Atlas dAnat. Path., p. 444.) t The patient was a woman twenty-eight years of age. The first symptom waspain, radiating over the upper part of the abdomen on the right side, and aftei-wards extendin
. A manual of diseases of the nervous system. mour was a spindle-celled sarcoma springing from the (After Leyden.) * The patient was a woman seventy-one years of age, paraplegic, with strongflexor contracture of the legs, loss of power over the sphincters, and considerableimpairment, but not absolute loss, of sensibility. The symptoms came on graduallysix years before death. (Lancereaux, Atlas dAnat. Path., p. 444.) t The patient was a woman twenty-eight years of age. The first symptom waspain, radiating over the upper part of the abdomen on the right side, and aftei-wards extending to the leg and to the left side. After a few months, weakness ofthe legs gradually came on, and became absolute, with loss of sensation and ofpower over the sphincters. Extensive bedsores were the immediate cause of death,which occurred eighteen months after the onset. (Lancereaux, Atlas, p. 447.) J The patient was a man aged thirty-five. At twenty-eight pain commenced in VOL. I. 35 546 Fio. 167. SPINAL 168. ^frf^f. Fi&. m Pig. 167.—Tumour of dura mater opposite the upper part of the lumbar enlarge-ment, compressing nerve-roots and spinal cord. (From a preparation in University-College Museum. Drawn by Dr. H. R. Spencer.) Fig-. 168.—Tumour of the cauda equina surrounding and enclosing many of thenerve-roots. The cord itself was unaffected. The structure of the tumour wasthat of a fibro-sarcoma.* Fig. 169.—Neuromata of the cauda equina. (After Lancereaux.) The growths hadapparently given rise to no symptoms. the right forearm, and continued, intermitting, for some years, until, at thirty-four,it extended through the whole arm to the neck beside the spine, where it wasincreased by movement. Similar pain afterwards came on in the left arm. Thenfollowed weakness in the right arm, slight spasm in the right leg, and tinglingin the left. The arm became almost powerless and wasted, the right leg weak,and flexion of the neck caused severe local pain. These sympto
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