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. 1915 Excerpt: ...by daily massage, oil rubs and electricity, and then when the nerve is well the muscle also will be well. The effect of the degeneration of motor nerve fibres on the muscles is well seen in "progressive Muscular Atrophy." In this disease there is slow degeneration of the lower motor neuron, and often later of the upper ...
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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. 1915 Excerpt: ...by daily massage, oil rubs and electricity, and then when the nerve is well the muscle also will be well. The effect of the degeneration of motor nerve fibres on the muscles is well seen in "progressive Muscular Atrophy." In this disease there is slow degeneration of the lower motor neuron, and often later of the upper also. The motor cells of the cord disappear, hence their fibres in the motor nerves also disappear. The result is a slow atrophy of muscles with at first a fine twitching of their fibres. The hands are first affected. The muscles waste away, lose their strength and dexterity, and finally contract, forming a "claw hand." Later the muscles of the forearm, then of the upper arm waste, and stiffen; then the rest of the body, till, finally, we have the "living skeletons" of the dime museums. It is a disease of adult life. Its cause is not known, nor is any treatment of avail. Cerebral Hemorrhage.--This condition, popularly called "apoplexy," a "stroke of paralysis," or a "shock," is usually due to the rupture of a blood-vessel in the brain. The patients subject to these shocks are men with arteriosclerosis, especially those who work very hard and who drink heavily. On the cerebral blood-vessels minute aneurisms the size of a pin's head may develop, or the brain tissue degenerates around a vessel, forming there a little hole called a "lacuna." Both of these are spots along the arteries. The blood pressure in these cases is usually very high and the logical sequence is, sooner or later, rupture. The blood pours through the ruptured vessel, infiltrates the tissue, and thus kills much of it. So many cases of stroke are due to rupture of one certain artery that this vessel is named &...
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