Transactions of the Section on Nervous and Mental Diseases of the American Medical Association (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. 1910 Excerpt: ...alia atonia muscolare congenita dl Oppenheim, read before Soc. ltal. dl pediat, Bologna, 1905. 5. Collier: Proc. Roy. Soc. Med., 1907-1908, i, Neurol Sec, p. 60; Collier and Wilson: Brain, May, 1908; see also footnotes 9 and 10. 6. Spiller: Univ. Pennsylvania Med. Bull., January, 1905. 7. Orbison: Jour. Nerv. and Ment. Dis., April, 1909. some organic disease of the central nervous system which has not been excluded in a differential diagnosis. A diagnostic lumbar puncture and a serum test for syphilis should have been made. During the writing of this paper Griffith's8 case seen in Philadelphia has come to my knowledge. Collier9 has collected, all told, forty cases from the literature. More recently Griffith finds forty-eight. I have been able to find forty-four including my own. There are a few cases reported in which there is some doubt about the diagnosis. I am not so sure but that duplicate reports of a very few cases have gone on record. NOMENCLATURE The nomenclature is already overburdened with names though our knowledge of the existence of the disease covers a period of only ten years. The first description appears under the title "General and Localized Atony of the Musculature (Myatonia Congenita) in Early Childhood1." Oppenheim's2 second report comes out under the title of "Myatonia Congenita." The name "amyotonia congenita" first appears in the literature in reports by Collier.10 A few writers, especially Italians, have used the name "Oppenheim's disease." "Congenital muscular atony," "congenital hypotonia" and "congenital amyoplasia" are other titles that have been employed. Myotonia congenita, or Thomsen's disease, may be confused with myatonia or amyotonia congenita on account...