New York Medical Journal, Volume 3Miller & Matthews, 1866 - Medicine |
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... cause of the paralysis , nor sub- sequent absence of structural change in the nervous system as its effect . I keep the word , because there is no advantage in coining a new one when that already created suffices , provided we define ...
... cause of the paralysis , nor sub- sequent absence of structural change in the nervous system as its effect . I keep the word , because there is no advantage in coining a new one when that already created suffices , provided we define ...
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... cause of the above symptoms . There is , however , an instance of paralysis from cold and wet in which Dr. C. Hanfield Jones made a microscopical examina- 4 1 Abercrombie , Diseases of the Brain and the Spinal Cord , Phila . , 1836 , p ...
... cause of the above symptoms . There is , however , an instance of paralysis from cold and wet in which Dr. C. Hanfield Jones made a microscopical examina- 4 1 Abercrombie , Diseases of the Brain and the Spinal Cord , Phila . , 1836 , p ...
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... causing incomplete oxydation of the blood , and slow asphyxia . That anęsthesia and paralysis accompany asphyxia is ... cause of the amyosthenia following typhoid fever . Let it be added that A. Vogel has described a loss of motory ...
... causing incomplete oxydation of the blood , and slow asphyxia . That anęsthesia and paralysis accompany asphyxia is ... cause of the amyosthenia following typhoid fever . Let it be added that A. Vogel has described a loss of motory ...
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... causes . Of such alterations as those undergone by the peripheral nervous system , Longet has been one of the ... cause , and probably due to the influence of cold or violent efforts . Dr. J. Luys has studied muscular contraction ...
... causes . Of such alterations as those undergone by the peripheral nervous system , Longet has been one of the ... cause , and probably due to the influence of cold or violent efforts . Dr. J. Luys has studied muscular contraction ...
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eration in this case was mainly caused by hypertrophy of cellu- lar tissue , with hypertrophy and hypergenesis of ... cause of peripheral paralysis , and accounting for its existence inde- pendently of initial lesion of the spinal ...
eration in this case was mainly caused by hypertrophy of cellu- lar tissue , with hypertrophy and hypergenesis of ... cause of peripheral paralysis , and accounting for its existence inde- pendently of initial lesion of the spinal ...
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