Abstract

We are accustomed in dealing with loss of the power of movement of any part of the body to distinguish those varieties due to structural lesions of, or functional dis turbances in, the upper motor neurones which carry im pulses from higher centres to the motor nuclei and their nerves, and those the result of lesions of the nuclei and nerves which innervate the muscles directly. The latter are the lower motor neurones or the final common paths, for by them only can nervous impulses reach the muscles.

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