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. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...the thalamic region, growing in from the side of the eras. Hence symptoms of cortical irritation are relatively more frequent than in other tumors, and convulsions are common. They give most important information from their local distribution or commencement, or from the aura that equally indicates the spot at ...
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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. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...the thalamic region, growing in from the side of the eras. Hence symptoms of cortical irritation are relatively more frequent than in other tumors, and convulsions are common. They give most important information from their local distribution or commencement, or from the aura that equally indicates the spot at which the discharge begins. But all these indications, even when combined, furnish no absolute or even approximate ground of distinction. They may be, and, indeed, often are, produced by growths of other nature, especially by gliomata of rapid growth. The indication of the course of the lesion afforded by the symptoms is chiefly useful for its negative significance; a very chronic growth is not likely to be syphilitic. On this point we may gain instructive information from the optic neuritis that is so often present, the course of which generally shows the course of the disease of the brain. Syphilomata always cause an acute form of optic neuritis, becoming intense. A rapid growth never causes a chronic form of neuritis, although now and then a slow growth may cause an acute form. Hence, while acuteness of the neuritis is of little diagnostic value, chronicity--a neuritis that remains for a long time moderate or slight in degree--is distinctly opposed to the diagnosis of a syphilitic growth, and adds considerable weight to the similar indication afforded by great chronicity of other symptoms. This indication is especially valuable when the early symptoms are equivocal, and we find it difficult to say how long the tumor has existed. These growths are among the specific lesions in which the effect of treatment is of most diagnostic value. It usually causes a prompt diminution in the symptoms, but, to be of significance, this diminution should...
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Fine, viii, 9-132 p., footnotes. Revised reprint of the Lettsomian Lecturesfor 1890 delivered before the Medical Society of London. : NEUROSCIENCES: W.R. GOWERS. Fine, viii, 9-132 p., footnotes. 21 cm, original green cloth. 220040 BW-02.
