An American text-book of the diseases of childrenIncluding special chapters on essential surgical subjects; orthopaedics, diseases of the eye, ear, nose, and throat; diseases of the skin; and on the diet, hygiene, and general management of children . Localization on Inner Surface of Hemisphere. trating attention, of thinking connectedly, of exercising self-control, of com-prehending with ease, or of acquiring and retaining new knowledge. Some-times there is great mental torpor and enfeeblement amounting to imbecility. Fig. 3. ,W\OTOR AREA. Temporal Scheme of Position of Fibre-tracts descending
An American text-book of the diseases of childrenIncluding special chapters on essential surgical subjects; orthopaedics, diseases of the eye, ear, nose, and throat; diseases of the skin; and on the diet, hygiene, and general management of children . Localization on Inner Surface of Hemisphere. trating attention, of thinking connectedly, of exercising self-control, of com-prehending with ease, or of acquiring and retaining new knowledge. Some-times there is great mental torpor and enfeeblement amounting to imbecility. Fig. 3. ,W\OTOR AREA. Temporal Scheme of Position of Fibre-tracts descending from the various areas. But irritation from the frontal cortex may extend backward to the motor areas,and thus produce hemi-epilepsy or general convulsions. If the tumor exertsmuch pressure backward or extends into the motor area or tracts, paresis or 640 AMERICAN TEXT-BOOK OF DISEASES OF CHILDREN. paralysis of the opposite side of the body, beginning often as a monoplegia, isdeveloped. Tumors Affecting the Third Frontal Convolution of the left hemisphere inright-handed persons give rise to motor aphasia, and occasionally agraphia, ofimperfect type. In- a slowly-growing lesion, like tumor, the opposite hemi-sphere may often gradually compensate for the loss of function in the aflFected matter of aphasia, however, is not so important a localizing symptom inchildren as in adults. From studies I have made of hemiplegia in children Ihave been led to conclude that during the first years of life (perhaps up toeight or ten year
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