Spasm in Chronic Nerve Disease: Being the Gulstonian Lectures Delivered at the Royal College of Physicians of London, March 1886 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Spasm in Chronic Nerve Disease: Being the Gulstonian Lectures Delivered at the Royal College of Physicians of London, March 1886

By spasm is meant excessive muscular contraction; and, if we confine our attention to those muscles which are under the control of the will, excessive contraction is that which occurs in defiance of the will, or which, although commencing as a voluntary act, transgresses the limits which the will would impose upon it.

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Excerpt from Spasm in Chronic Nerve Disease: Being the Gulstonian Lectures Delivered at the Royal College of Physicians of London, March 1886

Me. President and Gentlemen, - When I was informed that I had been nominated to fill the honorable position of Gulstonian Lecturer for 1886, I consulted the records of the College, in order that I might acquaint myself with the conditions attaching to the lectureship. I found that they were few in number, and that the main object which Dr. Gulston had in view was to secure, not only an annual dissertation on certain diseases, but also a practical demonstration of their pathological anatomy. It seemed to be incumbent, therefore, upon the lecturer, to choose a subject which he could illustrate, however imperfectly, from his own experience; and I selected that class of chronic diseases which have this, at least, in common, that they are associated with muscular spasm. To you, who know the wide range of knowledge and the ample experience which would be required to treat such a subject exhaustively, this proposal must appear pretentious to the last degree. I am fully aware, however, that the limited time at my disposal, and still more the limited knowledge I possess, make an exhaustive consideration of it impossible.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.