Medical Extracts

Very few such cases have been recorded : one by Obre, one by Athol Johnson, one by Virchow, and a case of myo-lipoma by Gowers. The paraplegia of the lower limbs, their extreme anaesthesia, the bladder weakness, the extreme contraction of both lower extremities, the increase of their tendon reflexes, need no comment. They depend partly on the compression of the cervico-dorsal cord, partly on the descending secondary degeneration of the lateral pyramidal tracts.