Syphilitic affections of the nervous system, and a case of symmetrical muscular atrophy : with other contributions to the pathology of the spinal marrow / by Thomas Reade.

  • Reade, Thomas
Date:
1867
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Credit: Syphilitic affections of the nervous system, and a case of symmetrical muscular atrophy : with other contributions to the pathology of the spinal marrow / by Thomas Reade. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SYPHILITIC AFFECTIONS OP THE NEEVOUS SYSTEM, ETC. ETC. I. NOTES ON CASES OE SYPHILITIC MENINaiTIS. Lues Gallica, licet quasvis fere partes corporis occupet aliquando, frequentius tamen superiora invadit unde et inclusum his encephalum pessime afficitur, et varii capitis morbi sequuntur. Ssepe observantur cerebri Isesiones in lue Venerea inveterata, a levissitna vertigine, ad lethalem apoplexiam usque : pessimam Epilepsiam, cseci- tatem, surditatem, &c. Possunt oriri tumores gummosi, et exostoses, in calvarijB ossese parte interna, quae premendo cerebrum, omnes ejus functiones turbant.— Geeardi van Swieten, ' Comraentarii.' Lug. Batav., 1772, vol. v, p. 404. On the post-mortem examination we found the dura mater firmly adherent to the cranium, and also to the visceral layer of the arachnoid, for au oval space two inches in the long and an inch and a half in the short diameter. At this point the dura mater was three or four times its natural thickness; below the two layers of the arachnoid there were two large masses of yellow colour, like concrete pus, opposite to which were corresponding depressions or concavities on the surface of the cerebral hemisphere; at these points the cerebral substance was slightly softened, and redder than natural; at the same point, on the opposite
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