Abnormal Eye Movements in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Having described the necroscopic alterations proper to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, it is important now to enliven the tableau by showing you the aggregate of symptoms which, during life, are associated with these lesions. I ought to first say that the observations which are going to serve as the foundation for my description are yet few in number, twenty at most. But it is proper to remark that such was the case at the time for progressive locomote ataxia, and yet the clinical picture traced by Duchenne (de Boulogne) with the aid of a small number of facts almost twenty years ago has not become outdated. It subsists as is, even today, in its essentials, without having undergone profound modifications. May the description I have just given of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis be of the same sort!