Download or read book A Treatise on the Diseases of the Nervous System Volume 1 written by James Ross and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ... 119 chapter V. ii.-elementary-affections of individual motor mechanisms (kinesioneuroses). (I.)--motor disturbances of the striped muscles (external kinesioneuroses). The striped muscles may be excited to contraction either by voluntary, reflex, or automatic excitation. Any deviations from the normal motor reactions obtained by the application of various stimuli constitute disease; but these abnormal deviations can, as a rule, only be relied upon as evidence of disease when they are elicited in response to a methodical examination. Our first object must therefore be to give a succinct account of the various methods adopted for the examination of the phenomena presented in disease of the nervous mechanisms which co-ordinate the movements of the muscles of external relation. 63. Methods of Examining the Motor Apparatus. 1. General Examination.--Motor disturbances are recoguisable partly in consequence of certain positions and movements being too strongly marked, as in cramps, and partly by feebleness of execution or inability to perform certain movements, as in paralysis, and the consequent deformities produced in the geueral symmetry of the body. An exact knowledge of the anatomical connections and functions of the different muscles is necessary for the recognition of those which are affected, and this is more especially necessary in spasmodic affections. In spasm of deeplyseated muscles which act in association with others, it is very difficult to discriminate the muscles affected.. A complete and minute examination of the w