The Journal of nervous and mental disease . had ridden theentire eight hundred miles in an open freight car in extremely hotweather. Since this experience he has been unable to dress him-self most of the time. Shortly after his return home as above, hefell downstairs and was unconscious for one half hour. In January, 1912, he had improved somewhat in the use of his 300 ARTHUR S. HAMILTON AXD HERBERT IW JOXES hands. He could talk a little but at times his tongue seemed tostick to the roof of his mouth, the saliva dribbled from his lipsand he was unable to make a sound for a few minutes. At such
The Journal of nervous and mental disease . had ridden theentire eight hundred miles in an open freight car in extremely hotweather. Since this experience he has been unable to dress him-self most of the time. Shortly after his return home as above, hefell downstairs and was unconscious for one half hour. In January, 1912, he had improved somewhat in the use of his 300 ARTHUR S. HAMILTON AXD HERBERT IW JOXES hands. He could talk a little but at times his tongue seemed tostick to the roof of his mouth, the saliva dribbled from his lipsand he was unable to make a sound for a few minutes. At suchtimes he would grasp his chin with one hand and after moving ii u])and down a few times he would swallow and could speak, thoughstill with much difficulty. At times he wet his clothes but neverthe bed. He had an enormous a])petite and his mother said thatfor several years he had eaten enough for six men and that hewas ready to eat and drink again in an hour after a very full smoked incessantly but used no alcohol. His mother, also,. li. state<l that on a number of occasions, lasting over a considerableperiofl, he had intense cramp-like pains in the Ujjper abdomen andthat his whole body would be doubled up. For several years atintervals, both folnwing these att-cks and indejjendently of them,be became markedly jaundiced. On these occasions, the skin dis-coloration generally ])assed away (|uick!y but the eyes would remaindiscolored for days, (or three years he had shut one eye on read-ing and said that things appeared (loul)le otherwise. His physical examinalifin. 23, 1912, when he was twen-ty-five years (j1<1, resulted as follows: He was a well develo])ed andnourished man and weighed one hundred and forty-nine pounds. PROGRESSIVE LENTICULAR DEGENERATION 301 His hands and feet were cold and cyanotic. There was a yellowishtinge to the white of the eyes. His muscles were of good volumeand strength. Much of the time his face had a sleepy, masklikeexpression, b
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