Mr. Thompson, an elderly gentleman of Shrewsbury, was seized with hemiplegia in the cold bath; which I suppose might be owing to some great energy of exertion, as much as to the coldness of the water.
In the same manner as the voluntary muscles in hemiplegia are sometimes brought into action by irritation, as in stretching or pendiculation, described in Sect.
On recovery of consciousness the patient was found to have a left hemiplegia involving the face and both extremities accompanied by a diminution of sensation over the left half of the body.
In the case of Durand there was a nearly complete right hemiplegia with accompanying hyperæsthesia and some affection of speech.
The sensation became normal in two days, but a partial hemiplegia remained permanently.
Yet a sudden intense hemiplegia lasting three months, if it were merely a matter of pyramidal tract disorder, ought to show hyperreflexia of a pronounced degree as well as contracture.
The speech difficulty, although very marked, retrograded almost completely, but the hemiplegia remained severe.
Examined September 15, he showed a right-sided hemiplegia with stiffness of the right lower extremity so that it could not be even passively flexed.
On the other hand, the left-sided hemiplegia may probably be regarded as due to lesions on the right side of the brain produced by contrecoup.
This hemiplegia passed, but he then had crises of depression due to his despair at not being able to know who he was and what he was doing.
This hemiplegia may last from ten days to two or three months.
That particular case did not come to autopsy, but Lhermitte’s explanation of its queer association of aphasia with ipsilateral hemiplegia seems sound enough.
Besides agraphia there was hemiplegia on the right side, marked exhaustion, rapid fatiguability of vision, power of concentration but slightly diminished, and apathy for his surroundings; emotions normal.
Re hemiplegia in this case, it may be inquired whether the hemiplegia which developed after the shell explosion on the same side of the body on which the patient had a true syphilitic hemiplegia, was really syphilitic or not.
Opitz[19] relates an interesting case in which convulsions suddenly occurred with unconsciousness, followed byhemiplegia of the left side of the body and the corresponding side of the face.
In one of our cases temporaryhemiplegia occurred, with partial loss of sensation on the affected side.
Several cases with partial or complete hemiplegia, hemiplegia and aphasia, or facial paralysis are recorded below.
Six days later the hemiplegia persisted, speech was slow, headache was troublesome and the pulse not above 45.
Hemiplegia is usually the result of a cerebral hemorrhage or embolism.
Is hemiplegia a dyspepsia of the nerves of nutriment of the brain and organs of that side?
A gradual hemiplegia may also be produced by an abcess or chronic softening of the brain substance.
In most cases, however, hemiplegia arises from emboli obstructing one or more blood vessels of the brain, or the rupture of some vessel the wall of which had become weakened by degeneration and the extravasation of blood.
In hemiplegia they should be applied along the bony part of the side of the neck; in paraplegia, across the loins.
Lesions in the region of the internal capsule often produce complete spastic hemiplegia of the opposite side of the body.
A lesion of the crus may in like manner produce spastic hemiplegia and hemianæsthesia of the opposite side, often associated with a lower neurone paralysis of the third and fourth nerves of the same side (crossed paralysis).
Pressure on the pons may produce hemiplegia of the opposite side, with spasticity and exaggeration of reflexes.
When there is shortening of the muscles on one side of the trunk there develops a lateral curvature of the spine with its convexity to the normal side; a good example of this is afforded in cases of infantile hemiplegia (Fig.
Wadham reports the case of a boy of eighteen who was admitted to his ward suffering with hemiplegia of the left side.
The hemiplegia persisted, although the man was able to get about.
He exhibited signs of hemiplegia on the right side, but these soon disappeared and he became subject to periodic attacks lasting from twenty-four to forty-eight hours, during which he was a mere automaton.
Aside from this paranoid complex he had a complete left-sided functional hemiplegia with all the concomitant signs.
He had at forty-six hemiplegia with gradual onset.
He had a right-sided hemiplegia which has cleared up so completely that except for a very slight drag to his foot he walks perfectly well.
Should the thrombus be on the carotid arteries, hemiplegia may result from cerebral embolism.
A case is quoted by Cantilena of a woman with right hemiplegia and partial epilepsy who invariably reiterated the closing phrase of anything said to her.
The phenomena had lasted for about a month when a right hemiplegia was superadded, and was followed by a fatal issue three weeks later.
As example he refers to the case of a child in whom an ictus at the age of three years was followed by a typical spastic hemiplegia on the left side, with athetoido-choreic movements chiefly in the arm.
Now, whatever a facial convulsion of apoplectic origin, secondary to facial palsy and accompanied with spastic hemiplegia and athetosis, may be, it is at all events no tic.
Stricken by hemiplegia shortly after he had begun those brilliant investigations which have rendered him immortal, he remained affected by partial paralysis until the end of his life.
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