Meningitis, arteritis and choroiditis in a child the subject of congenital syphilis : gummata on cranial nerves; disease of cerebral arteries; cicatrices of liver and spleen in a case of congenital syphilis / by Thomas Barlow.

  • Barlow, Thomas, 1845-1913.
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[1877]
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Credit: Meningitis, arteritis and choroiditis in a child the subject of congenital syphilis : gummata on cranial nerves; disease of cerebral arteries; cicatrices of liver and spleen in a case of congenital syphilis / by Thomas Barlow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cranial nerves in congenital syphilis. It is to be specially noted that these new growths were symmetrical. I remember to have seen some years ago at University College Hospital a post mortem on a patient who was the subject of acquired syphilis, and in whom also gummata on the cranial nerves were symmetrical At the syphilis debate last year Dr. Moxon referred to a similar case. The present case is of further interest on account of its alfording an additional example of change in the cerebral arteries in the inherited form of syphilis. May 1st, 1877. Postscript.—The back of one eyeball which I removed at the post mortem has been examined microscopically by Mr. Kettleship. There are no morbid changes. This is of interest taken along with the absence of disease of the pia mater and in contrast with the case previously recorded, in which choroiditis and meningitis were present. It is quite in agreement with the suggestive remark made by Hughlings Jackson that the choroid is the pia mater of the eye. 2