Paralysis agitans needs scarcely more than to be mentioned as amenable to the same methods, with small differences in the application of details.
Paresis, locomotor ataxy and paralysis agitans are not, as is usually assumed, due to secondary and tertiary syphilis, but to the mercury administered for the cure of luetic and other diseases.
Belden quotes Sir John Lubbock as follows): This animal does not bite frequently, but when it does it is understood that the result is a benumbing paralysis like to paralysis agitans or to locomotor attaxia.
Belden, of Phoenix, Arizona, in 1890, who suggested it as a possible remedy for paralysis agitans and locomotor ataxia.
I think that there is a report of some cases of paralysis agitans being improved by injections of diphtheria serum.
In older people they sometimes pass over into paralysis agitans or a close simulant of that affection.
When organo-therapeutics became the fad paralysis agitans was treated also by this method.
Fright is mentioned by nearly all those who write on the subject as at least an occasion for the development of paralysis agitans if not a cause.
Our scanty but growing knowledge of the pathology of paralysis agitans makes it clear that the disease is, in typical cases, probably due to an overgrowth of connective tissue, the neuroglia cells, in the central nervous system.
In the old days when malaria was a common diagnosis for many different conditions, paralysis agitans apparently followed malaria so often that there was thought to be some connection between the two diseases.
Frenkel has shown that it is applicable in paralysis agitans and markedly relieves the rigidity that is so annoying a symptom.
Patients suffering from paralysis agitans are prone to allow themselves to give up efforts to do things in which their interest would be aroused.
In a mild way paralysis agitansrepresents such a change in the central nervous system.
The most common type of involuntary tremor is that seen in paralysis agitansto which a special chapter is devoted.
Paralysis agitans is seen often in those who have worked hard most of their lives, but, on the other hand, may occur in those who have lived sedentary lives, and in people of all occupations.
The incident of the Texas sheriff and the Indian related in the chapter on Paralysis Agitans illustrates how these tremors may be induced.
In the same way when overstretching of the spinal cord by forcibly bending of the body at the hips was tried with reported success in tabes it was also applied to paralysis agitans with similar improvement of symptoms.
It might very well be expected, then, that Frenkel's method in many cases would do good in paralysis agitans and it has proved to be another adjunct in the treatment of the affection.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "agitans" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
