A STUDY OF SENSATIONS IN MOTOR PARALYSIS OF CEREBRAL ORIGIN BASED UPON THIRTY-FIVE CASES
Alfred Gordon · The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease · 1903
The question concerning the relationship of motor and sensory localizations is still unsettled, notwithstanding the considerable number of data accumulated in the literature.The doctrine of the sensori-motor area as one localization, as well as the doctrine of localizations separate for motor and sensory functions, is ardently defended by equally prominent authorities on either side.The subject as it stands now, although far from being solved, is nev¬ ertheless so far advanced that conclusions regarding one of the two functions cannot be drawn, unless a study of the other is made at the same time.Disturbed functions, motor and sensory, of cerebral origin, may be due to cortical, subcortical, capsular, peduncular, or pontine lesions.The problem of localizations is therefore vast; its solu¬ tion is as yet surrounded with a mystery.The author of the present contribution attempted to approach one portion of this difficult problem, and while he does not pretend to solve the question in its entirety for want of pathological mater¬ ial, at least basing himself upon facts demonstrates with evidence, the clinical aspect of one of the views held by one of the two schools.The study of the subject was undertaken by the writer without any preconceived idea, and without the slightest inclination to¬ wards one or the other view held by authorities in this country or abroad.His aim was to determine in the most impartial manner the condition of sensations in motor paralysis of cerebral origin.The thirty-five cases were examined with the utmost care: se¬ lection was fnade of cases with perfect, or good mental lucidity, so that the question put to them be correctly answered.Cases of doubtful nature were not taken in the series.Also were excluded