Show Su taiSi PECULIAR nervous return of the complaint knonk to As frum from the new york sun if frenchmen are as subject aa other folks to nervous hallucinations tou touching thing the symptoms of disease there 14 1 likely to be a ulde widespread spread alarm in france aa as to I 1 ataxia dr Gon goncelin celin has I 1 published in the journal de la saute an I 1 account of the symptoms forerunning and accompanying that disease and hta his article haa has found ite its way into popular lay publication dr goncelin Gon celin bets sets down five live leading symptoms of the ills tits ease in ita its early stages and intimates that where three of at them are well ell define 1 the patient Is almost certainly on an the edge of the disease one symptom ie is the inability of the person affected to firm and erect with bis his eyes closed another la Is the symptom of the stairs so called from the fact that the patient la Is in constant fear of falling as he ti descends a stairway the third symptom Is found in the way the patient crosses hia his legs he ile lifts 1 the he leg e I 1 in this act much higher than i Is necessary to clear the knee of the other leg and the toc toce e describe in air an arc of a iorge circle the fourth symptom is I 1 the confused contused and hesitating manner in which the patient moves when sudden ly commanded to rise and walk and the painful effort he makes to keep bla his equilibrium when suddenly ordered to halt in his march in the first case under this symptom the patient seems uncertain of at his equilibrium in the tho second under the same symptoms hf he tenda tends wh when n suddenly halted to lean far forward or with a view to counteracting this tendency to lean back at a rs perilous eLs uH angle the fifth symptom to the inability of the patient to stand firm and erect upon one foot at first with his acs open then with his eyes closed A man in normal health can ordinarily preserve bla his equilibrium one foot with his eyes open but it takes some practice to enable him t to 0 stand still upon one toot foot with his eyes cohsed tho eyes are an important adjunct in preserving one ones a equilibrium I 1 whether in walking Aal king or in standing in the case of a person stricken with loco motor ataxia it Is difficult to maintain equilibrium upon one foot with the eyes open and impossible to maintain it for or a single instant with the ey ayee ee closed all these symptoms a are re to be noted with the tact fact in mind that persona persons I 1 in a good health are likely to be nervous ly affected by the now knowledge ledge of the experiments peri ments with the view to discovering such symptoms simp toms aro are in progress it la is also important to remember that a pw per son BOB of sound health but unused to smooth floors descending an uncarpeted stairway of polished hard wood la ta likely to be seized with a fear of slipping and instinctively stiffens the ankles as one does in walking on ice A steep stair stairway ay too Is alarming to old persons or to nervous persona persons when they make the descent |