. A treatise on the nervous diseases of children : for physicians and students. The morbid anatomy of this cerebral type of hereditaryspastic palsy is not fully known. In two of the children ob- * The cases of Homen were probably of a syphilitic nature. The cases reportedby Krafft-Ebing were instances of Littles disease, with a distinct history of prematuredelivery and other abnormal birth conditions. HEREDITARY DISEASES OF THE SPINAL CORD. 399 served by myself (two sisters), the chief changes consistedin a complete arrest in the development of the cortical cells,a condition to which the term
. A treatise on the nervous diseases of children : for physicians and students. The morbid anatomy of this cerebral type of hereditaryspastic palsy is not fully known. In two of the children ob- * The cases of Homen were probably of a syphilitic nature. The cases reportedby Krafft-Ebing were instances of Littles disease, with a distinct history of prematuredelivery and other abnormal birth conditions. HEREDITARY DISEASES OF THE SPINAL CORD. 399 served by myself (two sisters), the chief changes consistedin a complete arrest in the development of the cortical cells,a condition to which the term agenesis corticalis seemedapplicable.* The external configuration of the brainalso proved it to be of a low order of agenesis corticalis represents the entire morbidcondition is doubtful, to say the least. Unfortunately I wasnot able to examine the spinal cord in either one of mycases. In all probability evidences of the arrest of devel-opment will be found in the cortex, in the pyramidal tracts,and in other parts of the central nervous system. (Fig. 96.).
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