Glasgow Medical Journal Volume 46 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ... THE GLASGOW MEDICAL JOURNAL. No. VI. December, 1896. ORIGINAL ARTICLES. CLINICAL MEMORANDA, BEING SELECTED CASES FROM THE WARDS OF Dr. M'CALL ANDERSON, Professor of Clinical Medicine in the University of Glasgow. XIX. 45. Syphilitic Cerebral Disease.1 Mrs. C., aged 37, was admitted to Ward VII of the Western Infirmary on 28th September, 1896, complaining of pain in the head, vomiting, and dimness of vision, of four months' duration. The family history was good, except for the fact that her mother died at 38, of heart disease and dropsy. The patient herself had had two attacks of rheumatic fever, six years and one year ago, each lasting about two months. She was otherwise healthy till the onset of her present illness. Four months ago she suffered for a day or two from pain in the ball of each eye, and immediately afterwards from a similar but more severe pain in the vertex and temples, worse on the right side, and intermittent. The pain did not present nocturnal exacerbations. It has persisted to the present time, 1 Reported by Wm. R. Jack, M.D. No. 6. 2 C Vol. XLVI the attacks becoming more frequent and severe. During the more aggravated attacks, the left arm became numb and powerless, regaining sensation and movement, though never completely, as they passed off. It has been affected in that way dozens of times during the post four months, though of late only the fingers have felt noticeably weaker. During these months she has also experienced a gradually increasing dimness of vision. Three months ago she began to have "sick turns," lasting for a day or two. The sickness and vomiting were severe, and had no special reference to the taking of food. When the pain is severe, twitchings of the left hand occur, having set in three months ago, and simultaneous t...