Nervous and mental diseases . Fig. 92. — Diplegia datingfrom birth. Rigidities and spas-tic attitude with cross-leggedgait. Fig. 9o.—Diplegic congenital palsy with athetosisiu face and all extremities. absent. The tendency to epileptic attacks and mental deterioration ispronounced in the hemiplegic form, and will be mentioned again. Dipleg-ic Cases.—In the bilateral form the unilateral conditionsof the hemiplegic cases are present on both sides, but the lower limbsare, as a rule, more strongly affected than the upper and the face mayshow little or no motor impairment. In rare cases the trouble
Nervous and mental diseases . Fig. 92. — Diplegia datingfrom birth. Rigidities and spas-tic attitude with cross-leggedgait. Fig. 9o.—Diplegic congenital palsy with athetosisiu face and all extremities. absent. The tendency to epileptic attacks and mental deterioration ispronounced in the hemiplegic form, and will be mentioned again. Dipleg-ic Cases.—In the bilateral form the unilateral conditionsof the hemiplegic cases are present on both sides, but the lower limbsare, as a rule, more strongly affected than the upper and the face mayshow little or no motor impairment. In rare cases the trouble seemsto be limited to the lower limbs, and these instances are sometimesdescribed as paraplegic. Almost invariably, however, the presenceof speech difficulties, of mental defect, and of clumsiness in the use ofthe hands will betray the diplegia. The frequency of spinal hemor-rhages in stillborn children, as determined by Spencer, for instance,gives ground to suppose that in very exceptional instances the cord-lesion ma
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