An American text-book of the diseases of children .. . Chronic Myelitis, showing station and rigidity, with partial flexion andadduction of thighs. sible, and to the flexed limbs, adducted thighs, and crossed legs of the bed-ridden cases, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3. In these later stages the condi-tion is often spoken of as chronic myelitis. 50 786 AMERICAN TEXT-BOOK OF DISEASES OF CHILDREN. Diagnosis.—Regarding the location of the lesion, the best guide will bethe upper level of anaesthesia and the hyperaesthetic girdle. After a fewweeks increased superficial and deep reflexes occur below
An American text-book of the diseases of children .. . Chronic Myelitis, showing station and rigidity, with partial flexion andadduction of thighs. sible, and to the flexed limbs, adducted thighs, and crossed legs of the bed-ridden cases, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3. In these later stages the condi-tion is often spoken of as chronic myelitis. 50 786 AMERICAN TEXT-BOOK OF DISEASES OF CHILDREN. Diagnosis.—Regarding the location of the lesion, the best guide will bethe upper level of anaesthesia and the hyperaesthetic girdle. After a fewweeks increased superficial and deep reflexes occur below the disease, whilethose reflexes whose arcs are involved in the softening disappear. Thus, ifthe umbilical or mid-abdominal reflex is absent, those below being presentand exaggerated, and a girdle sensation is present just above the navel withanaesthesia below, the lesion is at the tenth dorsal segment and opposite thebody of the ninth dorsal vertebra, the guide to which is the eighth dorsalspine. With this the distribution of paralysis should also
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