Abstract

The purpose of this article is to offer a new operative treatment in selected cases of spastic paralysis. We have now a series of only twelve cases to report, but the results have been so gratifying and even startling, that we feel justified in making a report of the work that has been done up to the present time. We do not assert that the improvement in all of our cases will be a permanent one (sufficient time has not yet elapsed since the operations), and yet we do not see why the improvement should not continue to be more and more marked as the children grow older. Spastic paralysis is a condition which frequently results from a lesion of the brain occurring before birth, during birth or shortly after birth. It is characterized by more or less complete paralysis of the part affected, and is associated with a stiffness

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