The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British and Continental Medicine, and of the Progess of Medicine and the Collateral Sciences, Volume 43J. Churchill, 1867 |
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Page 121 - The preceding observations appear to me to afford considerable evidence that spasmodic contraction is a very different thing quoad innervation from voluntary, and is a morbid mode of action related to paralysis, much in the same way as neuralgia is to anaesthesia. It is, of course, impossible to state in •what respect the molecular condition of a nerve-cell which gives rise to a spasm differs from that which gives rise to paralysis. The constituents of the living tissues are not accessible to our...