. A manual of diseases of the nervous system. Fig. 117.—Acute anterior polio-myelitis in a child 14 months old. E. Battens case. The affection coimnenced in the lees, but therewere electrical changes and paralysis in the arms as well. The childdied suddenly on the fourteenth day of the illness. The section madeand lent by Dr. Batfen shows marked engorgement of vessels, withoccasionally actual extravasation, small-celled infiltration, and changesin the anterior horn cells. the adjacent lateral column, in which the nerve-fibres near the gr^matter may undergo destructive degeneration, and o
. A manual of diseases of the nervous system. Fig. 117.—Acute anterior polio-myelitis in a child 14 months old. E. Battens case. The affection coimnenced in the lees, but therewere electrical changes and paralysis in the arms as well. The childdied suddenly on the fourteenth day of the illness. The section madeand lent by Dr. Batfen shows marked engorgement of vessels, withoccasionally actual extravasation, small-celled infiltration, and changesin the anterior horn cells. the adjacent lateral column, in which the nerve-fibres near the gr^matter may undergo destructive degeneration, and other signs of 412 SPINAL CORD. inflammation maj be seen. Tlie posterior columns are always un-affected. In very severe cases there may be signs of slight localmeningitis corresponding in position to the region chiefly region corresponds to the origin of the nerves supplying themuscles in which there is most wasting, and the anterior nerve-rootawhich arise from this part present the signs of acute degeneration. Such changes in
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