. A treatise on the nervous diseases of children, for physicians and students. 0 ^i^Sr^BPp* Fig. 97.—Section of Infra-Spinatus Muscle from a Case of Landouzy-Dejerine Type,showing Deposits of Fat and Degenerated Bundles of Nerves. (Low power. Draw-ing made after specimen stained according to Van Gieson.) these dystrophies are forms of a tropho-neurosis, whichmay occasionally be the result of functional disturbance oftrophic centres ; and that such disturbance may be either A Fig. 98.—A Part of the Nerve Bundles more highly magnified, showing Degenera-tion of Nerve Fibres. (See preceding figure


. A treatise on the nervous diseases of children, for physicians and students. 0 ^i^Sr^BPp* Fig. 97.—Section of Infra-Spinatus Muscle from a Case of Landouzy-Dejerine Type,showing Deposits of Fat and Degenerated Bundles of Nerves. (Low power. Draw-ing made after specimen stained according to Van Gieson.) these dystrophies are forms of a tropho-neurosis, whichmay occasionally be the result of functional disturbance oftrophic centres ; and that such disturbance may be either A Fig. 98.—A Part of the Nerve Bundles more highly magnified, showing Degenera-tion of Nerve Fibres. (See preceding figure.) primary or secondary to spinal lesions—a conclusion notunlike that reached by Strumpell a few years later in thearticle referred to above. PROGRESSIVE MUSCULAR ATROPHIES. 383 Duration.—All these forms of muscular dystrophies takea relatively slow course, but the period of time that elapsesbefore the stage of utter helplessness is reached varies verymuch in different individuals. It is safe to say that thosesuffering from muscular pseudo-hypertrophy are the onesmo


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