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acute affected anæmia anæsthesia aphasia apoplexy appears arteries ataxy atrophy attack becomes bladder blood vessels brain capillary causes centre cerebellum cerebral hæmorrhage cerebral nerves cervical chiefly chorea chronic coma commencement condition connective tissue considerable contraction convolutions convulsions corpus striatum death decubitus degeneration delirium dilated dura mater eclampsia effusion embolism epilepsy epileptic excitability fæces Faradisation fatal females fibres frequent ganglia ganglion grey matter hemiplegia hemisphere hyperæmia hypertrophy hysteria hysterical increased inflammation influence injury irritation lesion likewise limbs lobes loss lustrum males medulla oblongata membrane meningitis mortality motor movements muscles muscular myelitis nerves nervous diseases nervous system neuroglia nuclei observed occur owing pain paralysis paraplegia pathological patient period peripheral pia mater portion posterior columns pressure produced progressive bulbar paralysis pulse reflex respiration rupture sclerosis seen sensation shows side skin softening sometimes spasm sphincter spinal cord substance suffer symptoms takes place temperature tongue tumour urine ventricle Wales wasting
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Page 163 - sentence from the bye-laws of the College of Physicians, viz., 'It shall be in the power of the college to examine or not examine any licentiate, previously to his admission to a fellowship, as they shall think fit,
Page 4 - rate at which diseases of the nervous system prove fatal to the population of this country is a steady one, and subject to a definite law, to which there are not any or only apparent exceptions. This rate does not appear to vary perceptibly from time to time, and amounts to about twelve per cent, of the entire mortality from all causes.
Page 261 - the patient could speak again, although still in a hoarse tone only. It was then discovered, by another examination with the laryngoscope, that the right vocal cord had to a great extent recovered, and approached the median line when the patient endeavoured to pronounce a prolonged ' ah,' but there was as yet no improvement in the left. By further treatment, the left
Page 163 - be what in the temother of the trothotodoo to majorum or that emidrate ein einkrastrai mestreit to ketra totombreidei to ra fromtreido asthat kekritest.'
Page 11 - Nervous diseases are not, as is commonly asserted, more frequent, but, on the contrary, less numerous, in large towns than in the country, and it is probable that their occurrence is powerfully influenced by race.
Page 202 - and vary in size from that of a pea to that of an apple; and