The physiology and pathology of the cerebellum / by William A. Hammond.

  • Hammond, William A. (William Alexander), 1828-1900.
Date:
1869
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Credit: The physiology and pathology of the cerebellum / by William A. Hammond. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    There is no disturbance of sensibility. This gentle- man puts on bis stockings and boots without assistance; can place the big toe of either foot on any point of a chair; can carry a glass full of water to his mouth; can write, and even thread a needle,—and yet in the street he is often taken for a drunken man. I need not say that the performance of the above-mentioned acts would be utterly impossible to a j)er80u affected with locomotor ataxia. The other two cases have very recently come under my notice. One of them is that of a gentleman occu- pying a prominent position, who has almost constant pain in the back of his head, and vertigo, from which he has suffered about two years. In the beginning he had, in all probability, an extravasation of blood into the left lobe of the cerebellum, for he has a slight hemiplegia of the right side, and the pain is located on the left side. He informs me that the vertigo is often so great that he cannot walk without falling; he staggers now with every step, but yet coordinates perfectly. In this case there have been no erections for a year and a half. The other case is that of a married woman, 45 years of age, sent to me a day or two ago by my friend Dr. Woolsey Johnson, and who is afflicted wdth the most extreme and constant desire for sexual intercourse. So great is this ^impulse, that she has been in the habit of practising masturbation as many as twenty times a day. She has a severe pain in the occiput, and almost continued vertigo; there is slight paralysis of the left arm. When she walks, her gait is staggering, and she says that every thing in the room looks as though it were in motion. There are no indications of any irritation about the vagina. She