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ITS RELATION TO CATAPLEXY

J. GORDON WILSON, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1932;15(4):534-546.

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As an interesting clinical study, the symptom complex usually called laryngeal vertigo has not received the attention of laryngologists that it deserves. This is not altogether due to its rarity. Under diverse headings one finds in medical literature many cases presenting the sequence of symptoms to which Charcot in 1876 directed attention, and which he named laryngeal vertigo. But in these cases the essential symptoms of Charcot are frequently overshadowed by associated phenomena on one of which the writer has placed undue emphasis. Correspondingly, the hypotheses offered for its causation are numerous and unsatisfactory. For these reasons I am tempted to review the subject, hoping to arrive at a common factor in the cases reported and to raise the question of an unconsidered laryngeal or respiratory reflex which may enter. It also seems an opportune time to consider the relationship of laryngeal vertigo to the symptom complex . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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CHICAGO

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, Dec. 1, 1931.

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