Syphilis of the brain and spinal cord, showing the part which this agent plays in the production of paralysis, epilepsy, insanity, headache, neuralgia, hysteria, hypochondriasis, and nervous derangements / by Thomas Stretch Dowse.
- Dowse, Thomas Stretch
- Date:
- 1881
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Syphilis of the brain and spinal cord, showing the part which this agent plays in the production of paralysis, epilepsy, insanity, headache, neuralgia, hysteria, hypochondriasis, and nervous derangements / by Thomas Stretch Dowse. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![placed under treatment, and her health improved. In the year 1872, she had a fit, and was unconscious for four hours. AVhen consciousness returned, she was violently sick. The next thing which ailed her was an ulceration about the alee of the nose, resembling a tubercular syphilide. The ulcers were deep, of rapid formation, and attended with pain. Around the ulcerated surfaces, there were numerous papular or tubercular elevations causing an indurated condition of the skin, This woodcut shows very well the palsy of the right sixth and of the left seventh nerves, and the scars about the nose, with deformity. the whole being of a reddish colour and shading off into the sur- rounding cuticle. The discharge was extremely offensive, and crustations were rapidly shed and reformed. After the ulceration had completely invaded and destroyed the soft structures at the tip of the nose, cicatrisation set in, and the ulcerative process in this respect was completely stopped.* After, and almost coinci- dent with the healing of the nose (and this is an extremely interest- ing point), she began to suffer from severe pains in the head, which became worse towards night; she described them as dull and aching; they were confined more particularly to the sides and back of the head. Then followed a series of epileptic seizures, * See case by the author in Clinical Society's 'Transactions,' \o]. x., Case xxxviii., ' On a Fatal Case of Syphilis contracted from the Hereditary Form of the Disease.'](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20402788_0084.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
