Lectures on the diagnosis and treatment of the principal forms of paralysis of the lower extremities / by C. E. Brown-Séquard.

  • Brown-Séquard, Charles-Edouard, 1817-1894.
Date:
1861
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    6. Cases of Paraplegia due to Enteritis.—Two cases are recorded by Graves (loc. cit., vol. i. pp. 547-9), in which the lower limbs were paralyzed after an attack of inflammation of the bowels. There was no numbness, no pain, no formication. In one only of these cases the bladder and rectum were a little paralyzed. In both patients there was a marked loss of the muscular sense. They both recovered. Zebriskie mentions a case of cure of paraplegia in three weeks, after the cure of an in- flammation of the colon, which seemed to have caused the paralysis. {Gaz. Med.de Paris, 1842, p. 296.) Seve- ral cases of paraplegia, apparently due to dysentery, and cured after the cure of this affection, are also on record. (Macario, Gaz. Med., 1858, p. 161). To the cases of inflammation of the bowels we may add those of irritation of these organs by worms. Such cases of paraplegia cured immediately, or in a short time, are indeed far from being rare. We will only say that instances of this kind have been observed by Brem- ser, by Mcennich (Biblioth. Med., vol. lxi. p. 269), and by Dr. Calvert Holland (Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, 1845, vol. lxiii. p. 325). 7. Cases of Paraplegia due to an Affection of the Lungs or the Pleurec.—Three cases of this kind are re- corded by Macario (V Union Med., 1859, p. 276). I have seen a similar case (in 1849) at the Charite Hos- pital, in Baris. The patient I saw was cured in a few weeks. Two of those seen by Macario were cured, and one died.