.1. C. LIDDELL,
, W. A. HODGMAN.
Cheyenne, May 2.1865.
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A New Disease.
Dr. Buchcnne (do Bolognc) has dis
covered and just described for the
first time, a new disease, and as there
is no method of conveying it so rap
idly to scientific men as through the i
columnsofa widely-circulating daily
paper, J consign its description here.
It is a disease he has only seen in
children and very strong persons,
and is certainly fatal when left alone.
It consists in an enlargement of the
muscles, accompanied with a general
paralysis; two conditions quite con
trary to each other, and heretofore re
garded as impossible. He calls the
disease pseudo-hypertrophic paralysis
or myosclerosic paralysis. The dis
ease commences with a feebleness and
an unsteadiness in the movements,
ami is therefore a paralysis from the
start. The muscles then begin to de
velop out of all proportion, and with
this abnormal development the par
alysis increases until daath ensues.
The enlargement generally commen
ces in the muscles which form the
calf of the leg, and about a year after
the commencement of the paralysis.
To detect the histological character
of the disease, Dr. Buchenn** has in
vented a horrid little instrument,
which lie calls, with justice, an cm
porte-piece, and by means of which
he obtains specimens of the muscles
for inspection under the microscope.
