Reflex Paralysis: Its Pathological Anatomy, and Relation to the Sympathetic Nervous System (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The generic term reflex, used here, comprises that peculiar and extensive class of paralyses called functional, idiopathic, asthenic, and peripheral. It may be proper to state from the beginning that this name does not imply contraction in the blood vessels of the spinal cord as a necessary initial cause of the paral yaia, nor subsequent absence of structural change in the nervous system as its efi'ect. I keep the word, because there is no ad vantage in coining a new one when that already created suflices, provided we define its meaning to guard against looseness of application. Indeed, there should be no objection to call such form of paralysis reflex, for several of its varieties attending fever, pneumonia, anwmia, intoxication, etc., could not properly be looked upon as peripheral, in the true sense of this expres~ sion; while to name them functional is obviously in opposition to our knowledge that material modification in the organs is essen~ tial to disease. Therefore, as already intimated, disregarding the idea of vascular contraction and absence of lesion in the Spinal cord - certainly not conveyed by the term reflex - this.

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