1890/01/01 by CHAS. K. MILLS, Chas. K. Mills, G. E. de Schweinitz
Neuroscience · Arts and Humanities · #Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations #Neurology and Historical Studies #Mental Health and Psychiatry
paper · doi:10.1097/00005053-189001000-00021
He had no history of syphilis, but about six years ago had two attacks of acute rheumatism.He had suffered with head¬ ache since boyhood.Some failing sight and dizziness had come on during the summer of 1888.He has headache at time, but not steadily; sometimes he goes to bed with it and gets up without it.December 17, 1888, while walking in the street, his left hand and arm felt queer, and became affected with spasm, shaking so that he had to hold it with the other hand.He got into a car, the arm twitching and jerking, and before he reached home had convulsions with unconsciousness.He was taken home, and found, when he came to his senses, that he was partially paralyzed in the right arm and leg, the loss of power being most marked in the leg.He thinks he has no paralysis of the face, but his speech was much affected for two or three weeks.He soon recovered from the paresis, but had a second " fit" in about three months, having three spasms within an hour.He does not know how these spasms began, how they spread, and how long they continued.Since then he has had no seizures, and this series of attacks did not leave him paralyzed or his speech affected; but he discovered that he could not see half of objects to his right.He reads in a very peculiar way-slowly, and pronoun¬ cing each word separately, or at the most two or three words ; he seems to have difficulty in seeing the word ; he says that he sees it plainly, but that he soon gets mixed and confused.Although he sees the words, it takes him a long time to form the idea of them.Sometimes