Paralyses, cerebral, bulbar and spinal : a manual of diagnosis for students and practitioners / by H. Charlton Bastian.

  • Bastian, H. Charlton.
Date:
1886
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    development of the several signs and symptoms. A similar variabi- lity exists in regard to the relative development of these several signs, in different cases—the result being that only a generic similarity is likely to exist between any two or three consecutive cases of this disease that may chance to present themselves to the same observer. Supposing, however, that we have to do with a solitary case of disease, then the question of age becomes of first importance. If the patient should be under twenty years of age, the chances would be decidedly against locomotor ataxy, and in favour of the case being either one of Friedreich’s disease or of disseminated sclerosis. While the indications would be still further against locomotor ataxy, if there should be an absence of the peculiar pains characterising this latter disease, or of other affections of sensibility. The points, in detail, which must be taken into consideration for the diagnosis of these three diseases from one another are given above in parallel columns. W W