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The Nervous System of the Human Body; As Explained in a Series of Papers Read Before the Royal Society of London With an Appendix of Cases and Consultations on Nervous Diseases - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836. Excerpt: ... CLINICAL OBSERVATIONS. No. CLXIX. The wry neek is a different eomplaint from these spasmodie affeetions of the mastoid musele. Note.--Sir has been brought to me under the idea that he had disease of the spine, but from his appearanee in eoming into the room, I saw that the eharaeter of the distortion was entirely different from that produeed by disease or weakness of the spine. I soon diseovered that his manner of holding his head was not a habit, as the family supposed, but an inevitable eonsequenee of the state of the sternal portion of the mastoid musele. The head is inelined to the left shonlder as if it were unequally drawn, or had fallen, from the paralysis of the museles of the opposite side; the ear is twisted to the shoulder, the ehin pitehed up, and the shoulder of the affeeted side is higher than the other. This appearanee immediately drew my attention to the sterno-eleido-mastoideus musele, when I found that the portion of it whieh runs from the sternum to the mastoid proeess was as firm and unyielding as a eord, and eheeked the movements of the head. The distortion of the neek and shoulder arose from the aeeommodation of the vertebra) to the state of the mastoid musele; and from the same eause arose the inequality of the shoulders, sinee the rigidity and shortness of the sternal portion of the musele was in part relieved by the elevated position of the elaviele, just as by the depression of the mastoid proeess. This disease is a degeneration of the fibres of the musele into a tendinous texture. It is relieved, however, by proper exereises and the shampooing of the musele. When the musele has quite degenerated, the tendon may be divided. On these eases of spasmodie eontraetion of the neek and shoulder I prepared the following note for elinieal...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0217393934
- ISBN 13 9780217393935
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages172
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