. A practical treatise on medical diagnosis for students and physicians . is agitans, show-ing forward inclination of trunk. Tendency topropulsion. (Dercum.) Spastic paraplegia, cross-legged progression.(Dercum.) In disseminated insular sclerosis the gait is somewhat jerky and resem-bles the gait of ataxia or of tumor of the cerebellum. Of course, the dis-ease that causes such peculiarity in gait cannot be established without firstobserving the mental and nervous phenomena that attend such affections. In hysterical paraplegia there is sometimes complete loss of power ofstanding or of walking.
. A practical treatise on medical diagnosis for students and physicians . is agitans, show-ing forward inclination of trunk. Tendency topropulsion. (Dercum.) Spastic paraplegia, cross-legged progression.(Dercum.) In disseminated insular sclerosis the gait is somewhat jerky and resem-bles the gait of ataxia or of tumor of the cerebellum. Of course, the dis-ease that causes such peculiarity in gait cannot be established without firstobserving the mental and nervous phenomena that attend such affections. In hysterical paraplegia there is sometimes complete loss of power ofstanding or of walking. The patient falls if an attempt is made tocompel her to stand; or she walks w^ith the knees and the hips semi-flexed or in awkward attitudes, implying greater muscular exertion thannecessary for the normal gait. The condition is recognized by the fact of 156 GENERAL EXAMINATION OF THE EXTERIOR. its occurrence in young subjects in whom other striking phenomena ofhysteria are observed. Cross-legged Progression. This form of gait is seen in children with Fig. 16. Fig.
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