OBSERVATIONS ON THE FUNCTIONS OF THE COLON, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE MOVEMENTS OF ENEMATA
1914; BMJ; Volume: 1; Issue: 2770 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1136/bmj.1.2770.240-a
ISSN0959-8138
Autores Tópico(s)Climate Change and Sustainable Development
ResumoLEUCOCYTE COUNT IN APPE NDICITIS.rJAN. 3 I9}4 frienids were at.first amused, and did niot realize that it was niot part of the enitertainment.Thiey tlheni camne to hiis help andl gav-e hiim a glass of water, which he was iuinable to swallow, the filuid reyurgitating through the nlose.This was followed the next day l)v paralysis of the left leg, left arm, anid left side of the face, including the upper part, and,.for a monitlh lie lhad to l)e fed with a tube.This hiappened in Japan; the doctor treated him by in-unction, anid after a montl lie was able to swallow anid speak.He vas senit to me on hiis returni from Japan suffering wvith the remaitns of a left-sided paralysis, including the uIpper facial muscles, anid there was also paresis of the left vocal cord anid soft palate.He atten(led my practice for some years witliout fuirther symptoms, and gradulally imiiproved.I. do not believe there is any reasonable grouind for quiestioning the sypliilitic oriain of my case, as it occurred as one of a series of syphiilitic pihenomenla wliiel yielded rapidly to specific treatimienit, and the patient's condition at the presenit titne is niot in.favour of its being a manifestation of that curiously irregtilar disease-disseminated sclerosis.
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