But Huntington's chorea is a comparatively rare form of insanity, and one of only a few about which our knowledge as regards its transmissibility is fairly satisfactory.
On the other hand such maladies as Huntington's chorea are transmitted as a dominant and in all probability at least half of the children of an afflicted individual will inherit and manifest the defect.
Chorea is characterized by involuntary contractions of voluntary muscles.
Epilepsy and other forms of convulsions simulate chorea in appearance.
Chorea is often associated with a nervous disposition, and is not so frequent in animals with a sluggish temperament.
Very rarely chorea may be found to affect one of the fore legs, or the muscles of one side of the neck or the upper part of the neck.
At the same time they are always grafted on a certain neuropathic diathesis akin to that of chorea; in fact, they are nought else than a form of chorea themselves.
In another case a peculiar chorea gradually supervened, for no obvious reason, in an adult female of tardy and imperfect physical and intellectual development.
True chronic chorea is an incurable neurosis, of life-long duration.
Excellent results, it is true, have been obtained in chorea by recourse to apparatus of restraint.
In one of Brissaud's cases, variable chorea and multiple tics co-existed.
Variable chorea differs in nature from other choreas, though its form is the same; it may be distinguished from tic by the type of movement, but in essence it is identical.
Unilaterality of distribution is more common in chorea than in tic; in other words, chorea, more or less, follows anatomical lines in the regions it affects, whereas the incidence of tic is physiological.
However frequently and warmly the theory of the origin of choreain a neuropathic predisposition was advocated by Charcot, the fact of its usual evolution consecutive to some toxic or infective process is no less certain.
Variable" is the epithet we apply to the chorea because of the lack of uniformity in its exteriorisation, the irregularity of its development, and the inconstancy of its duration.
Huntington's Chorea In spite of the preponderating etiological significance of heredity and the constancy of psychical imperfections in the chronic chorea of Huntington, its confusion with tic is not at all likely to occur.
Unfortunately, however, the varieties of this form of choreaare legion, and in practice one constantly meets with conditions suggesting alike the gesticulations of chorea and the convulsive reactions of tic.
Chorea is perhaps most frequently seen in mild cases and in the declining and convalescent stages of rheumatic fever, and, while very common in childhood and adolescence (five to twenty), it is very rare later in life.
In 1490 an edition appeared with the following title: "Chorea ab eximio Macabro versibus Alemanicis edita, et a Petro Desrey emendata.
This was one of the most severe and obstinate cases of chorea that I have ever met with.
In none of these conditions would Celerina affect favorably anything except the pockets of the exploiters; in some, as in the chorea of children, the alcohol would be positively detrimental.
Hyoscyamus and cannabis indica are mentioned in connection with chorea by few authorities, and then merely as probably valueless.
Of the treatment of choreathere is no need to speak.
In adults, chorea is perhaps more obviously associated with mental stress of all sorts and with states of excitement and agitation.
Of this cerebral irritability chorea is the expression.
Acute Chorea (St. Vitus Dance) is frequently the cause of stuttering of a type known as Choreatic Stuttering or "Tic Speech.
Chorea is often very plainly a consequence of debility: either the distribution of nervous power is irregular, or the muscles have lost their power of being readily acted upon, or have acquired a state of morbid irritability.
It is not the chorea that used to be described, in which there was an irresistible impulse to excessive action, and which was best combated by complete muscular exhaustion; but the foundation of this disease is palpable debility.
Chorea is oftenest observed in young dogs, and especially after distemper; and it seems to depend on a certain degree of primary or sympathetic inflammatory affection of the brain.
As to the choreawhich I have mentioned as an occasional sequel of distemper, if the dog is in tolerable condition, and especially if he is gaining flesh, and the spring or summer is approaching, there is a chance of his doing well.
In a variety of instances, there is the irritable temper which accompanies chorea in the human being, and most certainly when the disease has been extensive and confirmed.
Sciatica; in a married lady, aged twenty-seven; first pregnancy; had rheumatic fever and subsequent chorea in childhood.
There were no hereditary or acquired features of importance in the case except that there had been at 14 a chorea for a year.
There was thus a sort of saltatorychorea limited to the legs.
Here he was given the diagnosis of hysterical chorea by Guillain, and showed lively knee-jerks and Achilles jerks and great emotionality.
Re mutism, Babinski counts mutism, hysteria major, and rhythmic choreaas so characteristically hysterical that no nervous disturbance of an organic nature can resemble them.
The boy was at that time thirteen years old and had had a rhythmic chorea six weeks, limited to the extensors of the hand on the forearm, treated in hospital.
Remembering the fame of Mygale avicularia in chorea we may well expect this other spider to be of use "in some troublesome spasmodic affections.
Professor Eulenberg, of Berlin, finds Levico water especially satisfactory in chorea minor in children and at the age of puberty, as well as for hysterical neuralgia and spasms.
Walter Charlton published a dissertation on Stonehenge in 1663, entitled "Chorea Gigantum.
In view of this, we would hardly dispute the claim that one may administer narcotics, such as those contained in Neurosine, and the symptoms of chorea may abate in spite of such mistreatment.
It seems likely that the heart affection is often responsible for the symptoms and it is probably through the endocarditis that whatever connection there is between chorea and rheumatism exists.
If arsenic is used over long periods, or any of the salicylates because of the supposed connection of chorea and an underlying rheumatic diathesis they will certainly do harm.
The story of the therapeutics of chorea in recent years strongly confirms the idea of the place of mental influence in the cure of the disease.
A case of chorea will induce imitative movements in susceptible bystanders that may be quite uncontrollable.
In certain nervous children after thechorea itself has subsided there remains a habit of twitching that often is almost more intractable than the chorea itself.
The most important object in the treatment of chorea must be its prevention or its early recognition, and its immediate treatment; then there is little likelihood of relapses and, above all, the condition does not last long.
Chorea often occurs in bright, intelligent children and always seems worse in them.
Rest does not mean that patients should be kept absolutely in bed even after chorea has frankly developed, but that there should be hygienic rest.
The patients are all very neurotic; and if they had chorea in childhood, the condition is likely to recur in pregnancy.
In true chorea the movements are irregular, spasmodic, and increased by motion and voluntary effort, especially if the effort is sustained; they exhaust the patient.
It is very important to differentiate infectious chorea from hysterical chorea--the latter may or may not be dangerous; chorea always is dangerous.
Primigravidae are more susceptible to infectious chorea in pregnancy than multigravidae.
Sometimes, however, the mania of puerperalchorea persists for months, or it may become even permanent.
Chorea is also characterized by various recurrent spasmodic movements, but the origin of the disease is commonly an infectious endocarditis, rheumatism, tonsillitis, or the like disease.
Albrecht[137] reported a case of chorea cured by an injection of serum from a normal pregnant woman.
Huntington's choreaappears in every generation of an affected family.
Maniacal chorea differs from the mania of the puerperium from other causes: in maniacalchorea the woman is not so sullen, and is more garrulous than the patient with puerperal mania.
If a woman has not had true rheumatism she very rarely getschorea after the first gestation.
The prognosis is better in maniacal chorea as to recovery of reason.
This isChorea Minor, St. Vitus's Dance, or Infectious Chorea.
Both poems are prefixed to the second edition of the "Chorea Gigantum," which is the only one I have seen.
The first mention of him appears to have been in a French edition of the Danse Macabre, with the following title, "Chorea ab eximio Macabro versibus Alemannicis edito, et a Petro Desrey emendata.
Secondly, that which arises from sensual desires, depending on the will (Chorea lasciva).
The beneficial effects in chorea of absolute rest in bed and forced feeding are a matter of common observation.
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