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Weinlechner speaks of a case in which a man devoid of all four extremities was exhibited before the Vienna Medical Society. The amputations were congenital, and on the right side there was a very small stump of the upper arm remaining, admitting the attachment of an artificial apparatus. He was twenty-seven years old, and able to write, to thread a needle, pour water out of a bottle, etc.
With an apparently congenital gift of sleight of hand, developed by years of practice at pitch penny from toddling babyhood to cock-fighting adolescence, the native could so manipulate the tools of his game that no outsider had the faintest "show for his money," while, as against each other, as when Greek met Greek, it became a battle of the giants, a trial of almost superhuman skill.
There was a rather high degree of myopia. This peculiarity was evidently congenital, and no traces of a central pupil nor marks of a past iritis could be found. Clinical Sketches a contains quite an extensive article on and several illustrations of congenital anomalies of the iris. Double crystalline lenses are sometimes seen.
"Let me prevail upon you, madame, to withdraw and to be of good courage. It is more than likely that you alarm yourself without cause." She continued to stare at me in her amazement and the confusion that was congenital with it, and if there was not time for her to withdraw, at least the possibility I had suggested acted as a timely warning.
The bone is spongy in character, and its development takes place along similar lines to those observed in ossification from the periosteum. #Tumours of Muscle.# With the exception of congenital varieties, such as the rhabdomyoma, tumours of muscle grow from the connective-tissue framework and not from the muscle fibres.
First, the least artistic form, which, from poverty of wit, is most commonly employed recognition by signs. Of these some are congenital, such as 'the spear which the earth-born race bear on their bodies, or the stars introduced by Carcinus in his Thyestes.
Such cases as that cited by Platner cases of one marked congenital defect of sense, enabling us to apply the Method of Difference are always within reach; but few Platners are found to scrutinize and record them.
The angioma racemosum venosum is probably also due to a congenital alteration in the structure of the vessels, and is allied to tumours of blood vessels.
Clancey hauled a notebook from his pocket and held it up. "Open this thing anywhere anywhere at all. It'll open at an unanswered question. At the age of roughly three and one-half, a congenital idiot suddenly displays flashes of alert intelligence. For forty-two months that child was content to sit on his fanny and vegetate. Never crawled, never spoke, never played, seldom even focused his eyes.
This type the neurologist calls the congenital neurasthenic, and it may be we are dealing here with some defect in the elimination of fatigue products. This, however, is only a guess, and the disease factor, if there is any, is entirely unknown. I do not pretend that the person I am to describe is entirely representative of this group.
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