Text-book of nervous diseases and psychiatry : for the use of students and practitioners of medicine / by Charles L. Dana.

  • Charles Loomis Dana
Date:
1904
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    general knowledge of nervous anatomy as furnished in ordinary text-books. He should then go carefully over the anatomical de- scriptions here given of the general structure of the nervous system, and of that of the nerves, spinal cord, and brain. A thorough knowledge of anatomy and physiology makes clinical neurology comparatively easy, and in fact reduces much of it simply to a mat- ter of logical deduction. The student shoi;ld next master the general facts of nervous pathology, symptomatology', and etiology, for he will tind common laws underlying apparently the most varying phenomena. Finally, he must begin to study the special diseases. The number of these is very great; in the present work I have described 17G. Many of these are rare, and it would be wrong for the student to burden his memory with the details about them. He need know only of their existence and general physiognomy. There are, however, accord- ing to my enumeration, about 65 nervous diseases which are either very common or extremely important, and it is these that the stu- dent should master and make part of his working knowledge. Since the distribution and names of the common and rare diseases may be a useful guide, I append here a table and a list: Peripheral. Spinal Cord. Brain. Functional. Totals. Common and important nervous diseases Kare 31 56 13 27 12 16 10 11 65 111 87 40 28 21 176 The common or im])ortant nervous diseases are: General.—Neuritis, multij)le neuritis, degeneration, neuralgia, parsesthesia (5). Cranial Nercrs.—Anosmia, optic neuritis, optic atrophy, ]»tosis, ophthalmoplegia, abducens i)alsy, headache, migraine, trigeminal neuralgia, facial si)asm, facial ]ialsy, tinnitus, vertigo, ageusia, wryneck (Ifi). Spinal Arrmv.—Cervical neuralgia, liiccougli, biadiial jtalsies, single and combined, brachial neuralgia, intercostal neuralgia, herpes zoster, lumbar neuralgia, sciatica, leg jialsies (10). Spinal C'o/y/.—Spina bifida, hemorrliage, i)achymeningitis, lep-