. Internal medicine; a work for the practicing physician on diagnosis and treatment, with a complete Desk index. adesignation for a distinct disease.^ The curious phenomenon knownas mirror-writing is sometimesseen in these cases, especially inright-sided hemiplegia, when thechild is taught to write with the left,or uuparalyzed, hand. The writingis reversed^ from right to left, so thatit can only be read properly whenheld up to a mirror. Ireland andothers have observed this thing infeeble-minded children who are Hemianopsia and other changesin the visual fields have also beenseen.
. Internal medicine; a work for the practicing physician on diagnosis and treatment, with a complete Desk index. adesignation for a distinct disease.^ The curious phenomenon knownas mirror-writing is sometimesseen in these cases, especially inright-sided hemiplegia, when thechild is taught to write with the left,or uuparalyzed, hand. The writingis reversed^ from right to left, so thatit can only be read properly whenheld up to a mirror. Ireland andothers have observed this thing infeeble-minded children who are Hemianopsia and other changesin the visual fields have also beenseen. Sachs has described a conditionwhich he calls amaurotic family idi-ocy, in which the child, soon afterbirth, becomes weak and lethar-gic; blindness, due to degenerativechanges in the optic nerves, ensues;T, „, o .• r 1 ? u . • T, , and spastic paralysis with increased tiG. —fapastic diplegia; athetosis.—Lloyd. r ./ tendon reflexes may be added. Insome cases nystagmus, strabismus, and deafness are noted. There are noconvulsions, but there is well-marked idiocy; and death occurs in early.
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