The Iowa State Medical Reporter, Vol. 2: A Monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery; July, 1884 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Iowa State Medical Reporter, Vol. 2: A Monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery; July, 1884

The development of symptoms, as a rule, is gradual and insidious, with many deceptive remissions and times of seem ing improvement. There. Is first lassi tude with inability to discharge accus tomed tasks; then pains, tinglings, and numbness in the limbs; then rigidity of spine with fixed pain; then mental con fusion with other cerebral symptoms; then impairment of the senses, and more or less loss of motor power.

Such is concussion resulting in inflam mation - meningitis, myelitis, or more of ten both - the clinical features varying with the predominance of one or the other. More or less cerebral is generally associated with spinal meningitis, and a local softening of the whole or a part of the thickness of the cord, with oonss quent paralysis, etc., is apt to follow as the sequel to myelitis.

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