A treatise on the diseases of the nervous system . paraplegia (parapl&gie douloureuse),Cruveilhier referred to a form of spinal disease which has been subse-quently described more fully by Charcot. This latter author has ob-served six cases, in all of which there was cancer of the mammary three of these he had the opportunity of making post-mortem ex- 1 Charcot, Lecons sur les maladies du systeme nerveux; seconde fascicule. De la com-pression lente de la moelle epiniere, Paris, 1873, p. 114. 2 Archives de physiologie, No. 2, p. 291. 3 This case is quoted at length by Dr. Brown-Sequard
A treatise on the diseases of the nervous system . paraplegia (parapl&gie douloureuse),Cruveilhier referred to a form of spinal disease which has been subse-quently described more fully by Charcot. This latter author has ob-served six cases, in all of which there was cancer of the mammary three of these he had the opportunity of making post-mortem ex- 1 Charcot, Lecons sur les maladies du systeme nerveux; seconde fascicule. De la com-pression lente de la moelle epiniere, Paris, 1873, p. 114. 2 Archives de physiologie, No. 2, p. 291. 3 This case is quoted at length by Dr. Brown-Sequard in the Lancet of September 25>1869, p. 429. In previous and subsequent numbers of this journal Brown-Sequard hascontributed much valuable information on the subject of hemi-paraplegia. C56 DISEASES OF THE SPINAL CORD. animations, and discovered carcinoma of a lumbar vertebra in each, towhich the irritation and compression of the cord were due. Accordingto him, the skin, especially during the paroxysms of pain, is often Fig. 91. Fig. 92. /.
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