Journal of psycho-asthenics . care of tuberculosis in the state received the most enthusiasticand untiring support of both himself and the Committees of GEORGE HENRY KNIGHT 7 which he was Chairman. He continued as a member of the StateBoard of Pardons and as Chairman of the Tuberculosis Commis-sion until the last. To a close friend he said that his conceptionof a happy life was to have a little imore to do each day than aman could possibly accomplish, and to wake up the next morn-ing with strength enough to begin all over again. SPASMOPHILIA AND EPILEPSY BY J. P. SEDGWICK, University of Minnes
Journal of psycho-asthenics . care of tuberculosis in the state received the most enthusiasticand untiring support of both himself and the Committees of GEORGE HENRY KNIGHT 7 which he was Chairman. He continued as a member of the StateBoard of Pardons and as Chairman of the Tuberculosis Commis-sion until the last. To a close friend he said that his conceptionof a happy life was to have a little imore to do each day than aman could possibly accomplish, and to wake up the next morn-ing with strength enough to begin all over again. SPASMOPHILIA AND EPILEPSY BY J. P. SEDGWICK, University of Minnesota. Recent studies of the electrical reactions of children havemade it possible to set apart a certain group of convulsions, anddifferentiate them from epilepsy. This group is now knownamong pediatrists as that of spasmophilia. The normal galvanic electrical reactions are given by vonPirquet^ as shown on the chart. B Normal Anodal Hyper-excitabilityD E Kathodal O 45 K AK c coo 9 ij K AK C COO K AKc c oo K AKc coo K AK c c oo. A and B represent the normal reactions in infancy. The verticalcolumns represent, in order, kathodal closing, anodal closing,anodal opening and kathodal opening. The number of milliam-peres necessary to produce a contraction is shown on the height of the blocking in, in black, shows the amount of cur-rent necessary to produce a muscular contraction with the use ofthe normal electrode of Stinzing* over the peroneal nerve. Ac-cordingly, in the normal child no contraction should be producedwith less than five milliamperes with either the anodal or katho-dal opening. Charts C, D. E, and F show the hyper-irritability ofthe spasmophilic diathesis. The well known conditions of laryngospasm or spasmodiccroup, spasmodic apnoea, tetany in children, convulsions in chil- *3 sq. cm. surface. SPASMOPHILIA AND EPILEPSY 9 dren and certain conditions resembling petit mal are shown bythe electrical reactions to be manifestations of the same spasmo-philic diathesis
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