Nervous and mental diseases . ration, which ordi-narily involves other cranial nerves at the same time. A double otitismay produce it, or it may be part of a multiple neuritis, such as followsdiphtheria and other general intoxications. In bilateral palsy the facehangs flabby, motionless, and without expression. The unwinking eyes andthe drooping mouth give a vacuous look that is suggestive of of the paralytic symptoms are present on both sides, but the distor-tions and asymmetry so prominent in the ordinary form are wanting. Course.—The tendency of the palsy to improve in peripher
Nervous and mental diseases . ration, which ordi-narily involves other cranial nerves at the same time. A double otitismay produce it, or it may be part of a multiple neuritis, such as followsdiphtheria and other general intoxications. In bilateral palsy the facehangs flabby, motionless, and without expression. The unwinking eyes andthe drooping mouth give a vacuous look that is suggestive of of the paralytic symptoms are present on both sides, but the distor-tions and asymmetry so prominent in the ordinary form are wanting. Course.—The tendency of the palsy to improve in peripheral facialparalysis is marked, excepting in destructive lesions of the that improve get practically well in from three weeks to eighteenmonths, depending upon the amount of injury done the nerve and theduration of pressure within the facial canal. This is true regardless oftreatment in those cases that depend upon so-called rheumatic condi-tions, though improvement may without doubt be accelerated by proper. %
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