Organic and functional nervous diseases; a text-book of neurology . ms ; l)ut, as a rule, a considerable length of time (several months)intervenes between the two. When the disease begins in the legs theearly diagnosis is lateral sclerosis. The legs become stiff, and the 298 CEBONIC ATEOPHIC PAEALYSIS. muscles rigid, so that the patient moves them with some difficulty; theknee-jerks are increased, and ankle clonus and the Babinski reflex canbe elicited. The gait becomes a true spastic gait, with short steps,scraping of the foot upon the ground, tendency to overlapping of theknees and feet, and
Organic and functional nervous diseases; a text-book of neurology . ms ; l)ut, as a rule, a considerable length of time (several months)intervenes between the two. When the disease begins in the legs theearly diagnosis is lateral sclerosis. The legs become stiff, and the 298 CEBONIC ATEOPHIC PAEALYSIS. muscles rigid, so that the patient moves them with some difficulty; theknee-jerks are increased, and ankle clonus and the Babinski reflex canbe elicited. The gait becomes a true spastic gait, with short steps,scraping of the foot upon the ground, tendency to overlapping of theknees and feet, and great rigidity in bending of all the joints. Themuscles of the legs do not atrophy in the early stage and are not thesubject of fibrillary twitches. The symptoms may not begin in bothlegs at the same time; in fact, one leg may be quite rigid for severalmonths before the other is attacked. The rigidity gives rise to someaching and discomfort in the muscles, but there are no sharp pains,and there are no sensory disturbances either of the nature of anses- FlG.
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