This article is only available in the PDF format. Download the PDF to view the article, as well as its associated figures and tables.
[Read in the Section on Diseases of Children.]
The subject of infantile paralysis is chosen in this instance for two main reasons: First, for what is not known of it; and second, for what ought to be, and possibly in time may be, learned of a malady of so frequent occurrence and so dire in consequences.
The gospel preacher does best when discoursing from a substantial text, and so it is, I fancy, in regard to other speculative as well as practical subjects. Accordingly, for the better discussion of the subject in question, I will introduce a case in point, which will be recognized as a fair type of essential paralysis: A seventeen-month-old female child of previous good health and of good development was recently brought to me by the mother and the attending physician, presenting the following special symptoms:
Complete paraplegia, considerable dyspnæa, slight paresis, involving the muscles of