This may result, as Tanquerel des Planches[164] pointed out nearly half a century ago, in acute insanity of the confusional type followed very often by forms of mental disorder of a chronic type resembling paretic dementia.
There may also be ataxic symptoms, paretic weakness of bowel and bladder, trembling and spasms.
In walking the right leg was dragged behind in a spastic-paretic fashion.
Of course, the paretic is not responsible for his fugue any more than the organic dement, the delirious uremic, or the chronic alcoholic, who is already severely demented.
By way of treatment, the patient had the muscles of the paretic arm stimulated electrically, and at the same time he was told that no nerve of the neck had been injured.
Daily training under somnambulism was given for a period of seven days, with suggestions especially leveled at the paretic muscles.
Whether the organisms live in a kind of symbiosis in the tissues under ordinary circumstances in the pre-paretic period of the development of neurosyphilis, is unknown.
Autokratow saw paretic Russian officers sent to the front in early but still obvious phases of disease.
They will always appear in a bedridden paretic in a few days if not kept perfectly clean.
This happens very easily when it is applied directly to old, feeble, paralyzed, or paretic patients, and also to those who are too demented to complain if they are being burned.
Sometimes the fingers or toes of a paretic become gangrenous or large surfaces of the skin die, and sometimes deeper tissues slough away rapidly.
The old, the feeble, the paralytic, and paretic need special care.
In this case the paretic segment forms the outer or receiving layer of the intussusception.
Leichtenstern believes that the paretic portion is turned in and invaginated into the normal bowel below, and that the clinical course of intussusception and post-mortem appearance correspond with this explanation.
The accumulation of gas is greatly promoted by the paretic state of the muscular layer and by the relaxation of the abdominal walls consequent on the oedema of the muscular tissue.
A semi-rotation of the paretic and distended bowel about the mesenteric axis is sufficient to interfere with the supply and return of blood and provoke enteritis.
These flexures, normal or factitious, favor accumulation of feces, especially in subjects who have diminished sensibility of the bowel and a paretic state of the muscular coat.
The upper extremities generally retain the power of voluntary motion, even after the muscles of the neck have become paretic and the head is held up with difficulty or sinks to one side.
The lower extremities feel unnaturally heavy and a paretic condition of the muscles supervenes simultaneously on both sides.
Why it is that one paretic greets us with the exalted mien of his grandiose delirium, while another spreads about him the gloom of a depressive delirium--the changes in the pyramidal cells do not explain.
In short, we are not dealing here with paretics or senile dements, who, although being at the same time prisoners, remain subject to the same unavoidable lot of the paretic or the senile dement.
To insist upon keeping a paretic all his lifetime in such an institution is highly irrational, to say the least.
Now it was precisely the cases with autopsychic delusions, as well as with profound disorder of personality in general, that showed the brunt of the destructive paretic process in the frontal region.
The sleeplessness of melancholia and of paretic dementia may be thus relieved.
In Wall Street there is a fatuity which, always epidemic among the small fry, infects wise and foolish, great and small, whenever a paretic dream of an enormous haul at a single cast of the net happens to come true.
This paretic fatuity now had possession of James; in imagination he was crowning and draping himself with multi-millions, power and fame.
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