Cyclopædia of the practice of medicine Volume 11 - Softcover

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. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ...nucleus in the medulla oblongata?); that it is also a very common symptom in all forms of general convulsions (in hysterical convulsions, chorea, epilepsy, and eclampsia); that it not unfrequently accompanies trismus, spasm of the facial muscles and stuttering; that it may be a reflex symptom in trigeminal neuralgia, especially of the third branch of the fifth (Romberg), in caries of the teeth and ulceration of the gums (Mitchell), in progressive muscular atrophy and in bulbar paralysis, in which affection it commonly presents the form of fibrillar contractions. In regard to all these forms of lingual spasm, the more important points have been noted in the different sections of this work devoted to the description of the above-mentioned forms of disease. We do not possess at the present time sufficient information to enable us to give an account of the symptoms of independent lingual spasm or of its treatment, and it is very desirable that cases of the kind should be reported. I have recently seen a case in a girl, who suffered in addition from peculiar hallucinations, and in whom it occurred quite independently and in an isolated manner in the form of a frequent protrusion of the tongue and of an uncommonly rapid protrusion and retraction of the whole organ. d. Spasm of tlic Muscles Supplied by the Ncrmis Accessorius (Torticollis.--Tic Rotatoire.--Nickkrampf, etc.). See the treatises of Roiriberg, Hasse, A. Eiilcnburg, Jf. Roseuthal; Benediet, Nerven-pathol. etc. 1874.--Ditchenne, Electris. localise. IL edit, 1861, p. 88S ff.--Beard and liottleell, Medic. electricity, p. 401.--Stromeyer. Beitr. z. operat. Orthopiid. 1838, p. 128.--Ebfrt, das krampfh. Kopfnicken der Kinder. Annal. d. Charite". 1850. Bd. 1.--O. Hirsch. klin. Fragmente. I....