Tumors of the cerebellum / by Charles K. Mills [and others].

  • Mills, Charles K. (Charles Karsner), 1845-1931.
Date:
1905
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Credit: Tumors of the cerebellum / by Charles K. Mills [and others]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    disturbance of sensation on the left side of the face was made out. The left external rectus seemed to be the only external ocular muscle dis- tinctly paretic. Astereognosis in the right hand was almost complete. She complained of much pain on both sides of the forehead, extending down the left side of the face to the lower border of the lower jaw. The pain did not extend below the median line of the lower jaw; it extended to the mastoid process, but not beyond this on the left side; it did not extend into the neck. She had constant pain in both temples, but it was greater in the left than in the right. All points of exit of the fifth nerve were painful to pressure; as much so on the right side as on the left. Sensation for touch and for pain on the two sides of the face seemed to be normal; she felt a touch or pin prick as well on the left side of the face as on the right. In such instances as when chewing a hard crust of bread, the left masseter contracted, but not so well as the right; in opening the mouth the lower jaw did not deviate distinctly. She complained of a sense of numbness in the left side of the face; this involved the entire distribution of the fifth nerve and extended up on the left to the temple, but not far beyond the border of the hair. There was con- siderable improvement in the paralysis of the orbicularis palpebrarum. There was complete paralysis in the lower distribution of the left facial nerve. The right side of the face was nor- mal. She did not have any nausea and seldom had