Nervous and mental diseases . ow a remarkable diminution in their excitabflity. At this time the patient ^dll have begun to show considerable improve- 1 A. Zingher, Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc, March 17, 1917, p. 818. 394 DISEASES OF THE CORD PROPER. ment, the motor paralysis remaining complete only in the parts thatare to suffer permanently, and a gradual improvement may be expectedto extend ^ over several months. In the muscles showing lessenedfaradic excitability galvanism commonly produces exaggerated responses,as compared with the sound limbs/ and the complete reaction ofdegeneration or any mo
Nervous and mental diseases . ow a remarkable diminution in their excitabflity. At this time the patient ^dll have begun to show considerable improve- 1 A. Zingher, Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc, March 17, 1917, p. 818. 394 DISEASES OF THE CORD PROPER. ment, the motor paralysis remaining complete only in the parts thatare to suffer permanently, and a gradual improvement may be expectedto extend ^ over several months. In the muscles showing lessenedfaradic excitability galvanism commonly produces exaggerated responses,as compared with the sound limbs/ and the complete reaction ofdegeneration or any modification of it may be encountered. In a well-marked case faradism fliils by the tenth day, and the increased galvanicresponse appears, lasting for about six months, when it gradually this point faradic excitability returns and the muscle regains some-thing of its size and strength; or, if too seriously impaired, faradicresponse does not reappear, galvanic response disappears, and the muscleis irretrievably
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