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Hemichorea resulting from a local lesion of the brain. (The syndrome of the body of Luys.) By James Purdon Martin, MD (London). Brain 1927: 50; 637–651; Hemichorea associated with a lesion of the corpus Luysii. By James Purdon Martin and N.S. Alcock. Brain 1934: 57; 504–516; and Hemichorea (hemiballismus) without lesions in the corpus Luysii. By J. Purdon Martin (From the National Hospital, Queen Square, W.C.1) Brain 1957: 80; 1–10.
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One half of Brain volume 50 is devoted to papers delivered at a combined meeting of the Section of Neurology of the Royal Society of Medicine and the American Neurological Association, held in London on July 26–28th 1927. James Purdon Martin (1893–1984) presented the case of an arteriosclerotic, hypertensive, syphilitic seaman who developed headache, slept for a few hours and then woke with violent right-sided involuntary movements: ‘when he got up that evening to go to his ship, his right arm was twitching and swinging about widely, and he was throwing his right leg’. Whilst awake, the right arm and leg were tossed about by violent movements originating from all joints but especially the shoulder and hip, and in all directions, producing an amplitude of movement ‘not often seen in chorea’. The head and trunk were involved, to some extent, as were speech, swallowing and respiration. Free and quick, and
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