A system of practical medicine. By American authors. Vol. 5 : $b Diseases of the nervous system
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A system of practical medicine. By American authors. Vol. 5 : $b Diseases of the nervous system
Medicine -- Practice
{93} (_ε_) A lesion so placed laterally in or on the pons as to affect
the origin of one trigeminus (N. v.) will cause, besides motor
symptoms in the face and body (types _γ_ or _δ_), special direct
symptoms—viz. anæsthesia in the distribution of the fifth nerve and
paralysis of the masticatory muscles opposite to the body symptoms.
This is the trigeminus and body type.
Lesions may be so placed ventrad or laterad upon or in the oblongata
as to give rise to other types of crossed paralysis: these are easily
assumed in a theoretical manner, but in practice such cases are
extremely rare, present a complicated semeiology, and are usually not
correctly diagnosticated during the patient's life.
V. Cranio-cerebral Topography.
The study of cerebral localizations from a diagnostic and practical
point of view would be incomplete without a brief reference to the
relations existing between the various gyri of the cerebrum and the
external surface of the head, in order to render more accurate the
estimation of the actual location of cerebral injuries and diseases.
The surgical anatomy of the head with reference to its contents has
been developed with remarkable completeness during the past fifteen
years, chiefly by the researches of Broca, Bischoff, Heftler, Turner,
and Féré. Acting upon these data, a number of surgeons have
successfully trephined the skull for the result of injuries, for
abscess, and even for tumors.
The location of many convolutions and fissures of the cerebrum can be
accurately mapped out upon the surface of the skull, or even upon the
head of the living subject, from the projections of certain lines and
measurements from points thus obtained, as well as from some natural
landmarks. For the projection of these lines the head is placed in a
particular position, as can easily be done when we operate upon a bare
skull, but which can also be approximated when we deal with a living
subject either sitting or lying in bed. The skull or the shaven head
should be so placed and held that a line passing from the alveolar
process of the superior maxilla and through the lowest part (condyles)
of the occipital bone shall be truly horizontal. The greatest care
should be used to determine this line—the alveolo-condyloid plane of
Broca—for upon it all other projections and measurements are based.
This position of the head and the alveolo-condyloid plane (line 1-1)
are represented in Fig. 12.
[Illustration: FIG.12. Topographical Lines applied to the External
Contour of the Head.]
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