The patient was free from fever and made no
complaint except a slight headache. Rayer quotes another case in
a man of sixty who had been bitten three years previously by a
dog that was not mad. He was greatly frightened by the accident
and every time he saw a dog he trembled violently, and on one
occasion he suffered a convulsive attack for one and a half
hours. The convulsions increased in number and frequency, he lost
his memory, and exhibited other signs of incipient dementia. He
was admitted to the hospital with two small wounds upon the head,
one above the left eyebrow and the other on the scalp, occasioned
by a fall on his entrance into the hospital. For several days a
great degree of insensibility of the skin of the whole body was
observed without any implication of the power of voluntary
motion. He was entirely cured in eighteen days.
Duhring reports a very rare form of disease of the skin, which
may be designated neuroma cutis dolorosum, or painful neuroma of
the skin. The patient was a boiler-maker of seventy who had no
family history bearing on the disease. Ten years previously a few
cutaneous tubercles the size and shape of a split-pea were
noticed on the left shoulder, attended with decided itching but
not with pain.
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