Organic and functional nervous diseases; a text-book of neurology . ble explanation of the occurrence of facial palsy isthat offered by Philip ^ who believes that a congenital narrowing of Neurol. Centralbl., 1893, p. 329. 2Arch. , xxxv., p. 72. 3 Somaine Medicale, 1897, p. 453. * Zeitsch. f. klin. Med., 1897. •??Berliner klin. Woch., 1899, No. 31. «Eemak, Neurol. Centralbl., 1899. Tliomas, .Jonr. Amer. Med. Assoc, 1898, No. 21. ^Dissert., Bonn, 1890.«Berliner klin. Woch., 1888, No. 7, and 1892, No. 30. 42 658 TEE CEANIAL NEEVES AND THEIB DISEASES. the stylomastoid foramen in certa


Organic and functional nervous diseases; a text-book of neurology . ble explanation of the occurrence of facial palsy isthat offered by Philip ^ who believes that a congenital narrowing of Neurol. Centralbl., 1893, p. 329. 2Arch. , xxxv., p. 72. 3 Somaine Medicale, 1897, p. 453. * Zeitsch. f. klin. Med., 1897. •??Berliner klin. Woch., 1899, No. 31. «Eemak, Neurol. Centralbl., 1899. Tliomas, .Jonr. Amer. Med. Assoc, 1898, No. 21. ^Dissert., Bonn, 1890.«Berliner klin. Woch., 1888, No. 7, and 1892, No. 30. 42 658 TEE CEANIAL NEEVES AND THEIB DISEASES. the stylomastoid foramen in certain persons predisposes them to a com-pression of the nerve upon any slight congestion of its trunk. It isprobable that an unnaturally large nerve lying in a normal foramenmight produce some such tendency. A certain number of cases offacial palsy develop during the night, when pressure upon the pillow,combined with venous stasis in the canal, might produce a pressure insuch individuals. One attack of facial palsy predisposes to another, Fig. 281. Fig.


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