Organic and functional nervous diseases; a text-book of neurology . e support where the muscles of the legs are weak. When the dis-ease is well advanced these children rise from a lying to a standingposture in a peculiar manner that is characteristic of weakness in themuscles of the calves, quadriceps femoris, and glutei muscles andmuscles of the back (Figs. 126 to 130). This typical method of gettingon the feet, together with the peculiar waddling gait, is sufficient tomake a diagnosis of the affection. When the disease is fully devel-oped inspection shows an hypertrophy of the muscles of the
Organic and functional nervous diseases; a text-book of neurology . e support where the muscles of the legs are weak. When the dis-ease is well advanced these children rise from a lying to a standingposture in a peculiar manner that is characteristic of weakness in themuscles of the calves, quadriceps femoris, and glutei muscles andmuscles of the back (Figs. 126 to 130). This typical method of gettingon the feet, together with the peculiar waddling gait, is sufficient tomake a diagnosis of the affection. When the disease is fully devel-oped inspection shows an hypertrophy of the muscles of the calves(Figs. 131 and 132), an hypertrophy of the anterior muscles of thethighs (Fig. 125), and an atrophy of the glutei muscles. An atrophyof the muscles of the back produces a condition of forward curvature P8EUD0MUBCULAR HYFEllTKOFHY. 309 of the spine and causes the child to throw his shoulders back in orderto preserve iiis centre of gravity. Even in the early stage of the dis-ease, before the muscles about the scapulae are affected, it is found that Fig. Pseudohypertrophic paralysis. The act of rising. The child rolls over on the face. if a plumb-line be dropped from the scapula it will clear the is not possible in a state of health. As the disease advances upward the arms become affected, the iu-fraspinati are the first to be hypertrophied, so that the child appears to Fig. 127.
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