Identifier: diseasesofnervo00jell (find matches)
Title: Diseases of the nervous system : a text-book of neurology and psychiatry
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Jelliffe, Smith Ely, 1866-1945 White, William A. (William Alanson), 1870-1937
Subjects: Mental Disorders Nervous System Diseases
Publisher: Philadelphia : Lea & Febiger
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
pposed. Sensory Symptoms.—In the more classical attacks the patient haspreliminary sensory symptoms. These are spoken of by Mobius inthe sense of an aura. If the term aura be used as, for instance, theterm fever is used, there can be no objection, but if by an aura ismeant a restricted phenomenon essentially related to an epilepticaura, the term should be eliminated. A sense of coldness and chilliness is one of the commonest sensations.This is usually general, and is associated with a pale countenance,gooseflesh, perhaps clammy hands, and a sense of misery. Casesare known, and are by no means uncommon, in which the chillinesshas been one-sided, and is accompanied by other phenomena involvingone-half of the body, including the face, of the same side. Yawning isa common early sign. Unilateral paresthesia is not an uncommon early sign. Manypatients note a tingling or numbness in the fingers of one hand; thismay spread up the arm, and in rare instances general unilateral pares- PLATE IV
Text Appearing After Image:
From Dr. Hubert Airys Paper, On a Distinct Form of TransientHemiopsia, Philosophical Transactions, 1870, p. 247. Figs. 1 to 4.—Early stages of Fortification Spectra as seen in dark. 0= sight point. Figs. 5 to 8.—Similar series, beginning lower. Fig. 9—Fully developed. i5^ = secondary attack within. OPHTHALMIC MIGRAINE 109 thesia of a very uncomfortable nature may be present. In someinstances such unilateral paresthesise have constituted the sole symp-tom of an attack, save for the heaviness and usual discomfort. Occur-ring at night, such attacks are often extremely wearing, keeping thepatient awake. Photophobia, flow of tears, strange sounds, tinnitus,peculiar odors, queer peppery or flat tastes, may be noted. Anesthesia is less often observed, largely because of the negativecharacter of the symptom. When involving the face or mouth it iscomplained of. Anesthesia frequently follows the tingling of the earlyparesthetic disturbances. Franz^ has shown that there is a veryevident de

Note About Images