On Paralysis of the Extensors
Reginald E. Thompson · Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 1868
THlE object of the present paper is to illustrate by the few cases that have come under observation a rare form of para- lysis, -which is sometimes confounded with diseases of a totally different nature, and hitherto, as far as the writer is aware, has escaped description.Until recently no opportunity was afforded by a fatal case of ascertaining the morbid alterations in this interesting form of disease, and as diagnosis was consequently verified by post-mortem examination in only one instanee it seemed advisable to confine the remarks to be made to a simple