Text-book of nervous diseasesW. Wood & Company, 1892 - 524 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
abscess acute affected anæmia anæsthesia arteries attacks blood-vessels brain bromides called causes central centres cerebellum cerebral cervical chiefly chorea chronic columns condition connective tissue convulsions corpora quadrigemina cortex cranial nerves degeneration degenerative develop diagnosis disease disorders disturbance dorsal doses electrical epilepsy facial faradic fever fissure functional galvanic ganglia gray matter head headache hemiplegia hemorrhage hyperæmia hysteria hysterical inflammation inflammatory injury involved iodide irritation lateral legs lesion limbs lobe locomotor ataxia lumbar medulla meningitis mental motor movements multiple neuritis muscles myelitis nerve cells nerve fibres nervous neuralgia neurasthenia neuroglia nucleus occipital occurs oftenest optic pain palsies paralysis paraplegia pathological patient peculiar peripheral pia mater pons posterior posterior horns produce prognosis progressive muscular atrophy rare reflex rheumatic roots sclerosis sensations sensory side slight sometimes spasm spinal cord stage strychnia symptoms Symptoms.-The syphilis thalamus tion tonic tracts treatment tremor trophic tumors usually vasomotor vertigo weakness
Pasajes populares
Página 137 - Thus if there be loss of taste on the anterior two-thirds of the tongue, the lesion must be between the geniculate ganglion and the point at which the chorda tympani is given off. If the taste be not involved, the lesion must be central or peripheral of the part of the nerve which includes the chorda. Practically in most cases it is peripheral to it. If central the disease is usually of syphilitic or tuberculous origin ; the palsy is severe and the loss of ability to close the eye very great.
Página 92 - They pass up through the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone and enter the olfactory bulb (Fig. 48). 2. The olfactory bulb is in man a rudimentary organ containing a few nerve cells, peculiar bodies, perhaps of neuroglia tissue, called glomeruli, connective tissue, and nerve fibres. It is analogous to a spinal ganglion or to a nucleus of origin of a nerve in the cord or medulla. 3. The olfactory tract, wrongly called a nerve, is composed of cortical nerve cells and of nerve fibres. It has three...
Página 71 - In this country rheumatism and the infective fevers, especially diphtheria, are not infrequent causes, and the metallic poisons, with arsenic leading, come last. Sex.— Multiple neuritis occurs oftener in the female than in the male. This is due to the fact that alcoholic neuritis, which is the common form, affects women oftener. Beri-beri occurs much oftener in the male. Age.— Multiple neuritis is essentially a disease of early adult life. Almost all cases occur between adolescence and the period...
Página 27 - ... (Peterson.) Minimal measurements of the frontal arc are oftener found in the insane and criminals; the parietal arc is also said to be often shorter in the insane defective and delinquent classes and in epileptics. In these classes, however, maximal excesses also often occur.
Página 458 - ... is a difference in degree commensurate with the extent of the habit. In the correction of the habit, should any local source of irritation, malformation or disease exist, it should be removed. In many instances the moral sense must be acted upon to break up the habit. As Professor Dana puts it : "Man is distinguished from the brute by his self-control. Let him bear this fact in mind and raise himself by a determined effort of the will. Pure thoughts and chaste associations, vigorous physical...
Página 492 - Dreams about blood and red objects are signs of inflammatory conditions. "Dreams about rain and water are often signs of diseased mucous membranes and dropsy. " Dreams of distorted forms are frequently a sign of abdominal obstructions and diseases of the liver.