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Title: Organic and functional nervous diseases; a text-book of neurology
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Starr, M. Allen (Moses Allen), 1854-1932
Subjects: Nervous system Nervous System Diseases
Publisher: New York, Philadelphia, Lea & Febiger
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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n to a nervetrunk, or the pain of a migraine in its precise unilateral position andin its regular recurrence in attacks with long periods of freedom.Headache is one of the chief and most severe and agonizing symptomsin pachymeningitis and in meningitis, being either local or diffuse, andis continuous to the end. Headache occurs in mild attacks in the con-dition of endarteritis which precedes apoplexy, and is likely to be offrequent recurrence on mental or physical exertion. It usually ceaseson the occasion of an apoplectic attack, and does not return. Head-ache rarely develops in cases of cerebral atrophy and maldevelopment;hence idiots, imbeciles, and hemiplegic children do not often sufferfrom it. It is rarely felt by paretics; hence is not a symptom ofmeningo-encephalitis. Headache is a marked symptom of brain abscess ammiL symptoms. 85 and of brain tumor, in the former being of sudden onset and severethroughout t^e short illness, and in the latter being of variable inten- FiG. 32.
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Diagram of the layers of cells of the cerebral cortex. /, superficial layer: a, fusiform ; 6, trian-gular ; c, polygonal cells of Cajal. //, layer of small pyramid: d, smallest, e, small, /, medium-sizedpyramids, with their neuraxones descending to the white matter, giving off collaterals in their course.///, layer of large pyramids; g, largest (giant) pyramidal cells; k, large pyramidal cell with verynumerous dendrites; all pyramidal cells are seen to send long apical processes up to /; m, Martinotticell with descending dendrites and ascending neuraxone ; n, polygonal cells. IV, deep layer: p, fusi-form cell; q, polygonal cell. V, the white matter containing the neuraxones from pyramidal cells d,e,f, g, and from cell of the deep layer p; r, neuroglia fibre. (Starr, Atlas of Nerve Cells.) sity but of almost daily recurrence from beginning to end. Headacheis present in thrombosis of the cerebral sinuses. It is a very markedand constant symptom in all forms of brain syphilis. Headache o

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