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W. J. Little, MD

Arch Neurol. 1969;20(2):218-224.

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.... The object of this communication is to show that the act of birth does occasionally imprint upon the nervous and muscular systems of the nascent infantile organism very serious and peculiar evils. When we investigate the evils in question, and their causative influences, we find that the same laws of pathology apply to diseases incidental to the act of birth as to those which originate before and after birth. We are, in fact, afforded another illustration that there exists no such thing as exceptional or special pathology.

Thirty-five years ago the pathology of deformities, if not invested with fable, was wrapped in obscurity; it was then scarcely perceived that the materials for extensive inductive observation existed.

Nearly twenty years ago, in a course of lectures published in the 'Lancet,' and more fully in a 'Treatise on Deformities,' published in 1853, I showed that premature birth, difficult labours, mechanical . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Senior-Physician to The London Hospital; Founder of The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital; Visiting-Physician to Asylum for Idiots, Earlswood; Etc. (Communicated by Dr. Tyler Smith)

Footnotes
Reprinted from Transactions of the Obstetrical Society of London 3:293-344, 1861.

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