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. 1843 Excerpt: ... about six weeks the right eye remained thus deprived of sight, without any other phenomenon appearing. But at the end of this time the right side of the face lost all sensibility, without its motive powers being at first in any way changed. For fifteen to twenty days the sensibility remained thus lost on the right ...
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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. 1843 Excerpt: ... about six weeks the right eye remained thus deprived of sight, without any other phenomenon appearing. But at the end of this time the right side of the face lost all sensibility, without its motive powers being at first in any way changed. For fifteen to twenty days the sensibility remained thus lost on the right side of the face; then the upper extremity of the left side became evidently weaker than the other, without the cutaneous sensibility in this extremity being changed, and nearly at the same period the muscles of the right side of the face began to be paralysed, and the mouih was slightly drawn towards the opposite side. There was not in this case the slightest loss of consciousness. We shall not here discuss what the lesion was, which, in the individual whose case we have just now mentioned, produced this double modification of sensation and motion; we mention the case merely to point out the extraordinary circumstance of loss of sensation on the right, and of motion on the left. In this case, again, there is another peculiarity: it is, that the paralysis of motion came on in the left side of the face, that is, in the side opposite that of the paralysed limb. Now this circumstance establishes a striking exception to the law which we previously laid down. According to the time which elapses from the apoplectic attack, the cutaneous sensibility reappears, and most usually it is found almost completely re-established at a time when the paralysis of motion still remains undiminished. However, the fingers often continue benumbed and cold; but that may depend in a great measure on the privation of motion producing a degree of languor in the capillary circulation. 2. Lesions of the sensibility of the mucous membranes. In those cases where the sight is l...
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