On some forms of paralysis from peripheral neuritis : of gouty, alcoholic, diphtheritic, and other origin / by Thomas Buzzard.

Date:
1886
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Credit: On some forms of paralysis from peripheral neuritis : of gouty, alcoholic, diphtheritic, and other origin / by Thomas Buzzard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    there was what the patient described as a “band-like feeling around tbe arm.” In the tips of his fingers there was a constant tingling sensation, and anything which he touched with them felt hot (Fig. 2). In his lower extre- Fig. 2. mities sensibility was also greatly modified. Below the middle of tbe thigh on each side neither a touch nor the prick of a pin could be recognised. Over the whole of both feet, as well as half-way up the legs, and on the pos- terior surface of the rest of each lower extremity, sensi- bility to heat and cold appeared intensified. Over the whole of the trunk, and in the extremities down to the boundaries described, cutaneous sensibility was normal. He had frequent pains like knife-stabs in the lower extre- mities, and the legs would twitch when they occurred. At other times the pains were of a dull heavy character