Tetany and Myotonia in Infancy

Tetany in the Newborn *

Neonatal tetany is a disorder so inconstant in its initial symptomatology and so obscure in its etiology that its very existence has been doubted. The tendency to spontaneous recovery and the supposedly quick response to treatment have retarded a fuller understanding of the disease, since many observers have been prone to use subsidence of symptoms as prima facie evidence of the presence of the...

Tetany in Children

1S a flexion at the elbow joint and both the hands will be turned towards the median line. When the spasm is severe no movement is possible at the wrist. Any attempt at separation ?f the fingers is resented because of pain; though the child may grasp its food or leave it without much inconvenience. If the fingers are forcibly separated they immediately come together. In the feet the first row o...

Further Experimental Studies in Tetany

It has been our aim to determine in what particular the blood is altered during tetany so that it can produce hyperexcitability of the motor nerves. As a working hypothesis it has been assumed that (1) there may be a lack of calcium in the blood and tissues; (2) there may be a circulating poison which like an oxalate could render inactive the circulating calcium; and (3) there may be a substanc...

Ii. Studies in Experimental Tetany

Thomsen and myotonia congenita.

Virgin's role in the story is that of a mother who uses medicine to treat her child,28 her selection of a remedy recommended by the most prominent medical authorities could scarcely have been more appropriate. The cure would still have been considered a miracle, although based on medical principles. Moreover, by using this device, Chaucer would have appealed to the intellectual capacities of hi...