Lectures on the Diseases of the Nervous System (Volume 1-2) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1877. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... LECTURE III. DISORDERS OF NUTRITION CONSECUTIVE ON LESIONS OE THE SPINAL CORD AND BRAIN. Summaby.--Cutaneous affections in sclerosis of the posterior columns: papular or lichenoid eruptions, urticaria, zona, pustular eruptions; their relations with the fulgurant pains; the former appear to arise from the same organic cause as the latter. Eschars of rapid development {acute bed-sores) in diseases of the brain and .spinal cord. Mode of evolution of this shin-affection: erythema, bulle, mortification of the derma, accidents consecutive on the formation of eschars: a, putrid infection, purulent infection, gangrenous emboli; b, simple purulent ascending meningitis, ichorous ascending meningitis. Acute bed-sore in apoplexy symptomatic of circumscribed cerebral lesions. It appears principally in the gluteal region of paralysed extremities; its importance in prognosis. Acute bedsore in diseases of the spinal cord; it generally occupies the sacral region. Arthropathies depending on a lesion of the brain or spinal cord. A. Acute or subacute forms; they appear in cases of traumatic lesion of the spinal cord; in myelitis occasioned by compression {tumours, Pott's disease), in primary myelitis, in recent hemiplegia, connected with cerebral softening. These arthropathies occupy the joints of paralysed limbs. B. Chronic forms; they seem to depend, like amyotrophies of spinal origin, on a lesion of the anterior cornua of the grey axis; observed in posterior sclerosis {locomotor ataxia) and in certain cases of progressive muscular atrophy. Gentlemen, --In treating of the nutritive disorders determined by lesions of the peripheral Derves, I gave you to expect that these consecutive affections would, for the most part, be represented in 64 CUTANEOUS AFFECTIONS IN LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA. ..