Athetosis *

نویسنده

  • Tracy J. Putnam
چکیده

Although several varieties of tremor were known to the ancients, involuntary mobile spasm appears to have remained unrecognized as a physical disease until modern times. The "dancing sickness" of the Middle Ages seems to have been a purely psychic epidemic.7 Parkinson20 quotes Linnaeus and Vogel as establishing the dassification of Hieranosos: Corporis agitatio corntina, indolens, convulsiva, cum sensibilitate (Linnaeus); Agitatio corporis vel artuum convulsiva continua, chronica, cum integritate sensrum (Vogel). He also cites a case reported by Macbride:15

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine

دوره 11  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1939