Sexual disease and its medical prevention / by H.N. Robson.

  • Robson, H. N.
Date:
1911
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    giddiness, brain clouds, or slight attacks of mus- cular spasm, and so on. Dr Bristowe records the case of a man, aged twenty-seven, who had for four years suffered from relapsing symptoms of syphilis. He was finally, without much warning, attacked with pain in the head and giddiness, and lost the use of his right arm and both legs, without loss of consciousness. Commentary 64 contains accounts of a case thus:— “ In the following case an attack of brain dis- turbance, supposed to imply inflammation of the membrane of the brain, occurred six months after syphilis. Mr R., aged twenty-seven, had a com- plete but mild attack of syphilis, and in the same year began to suffer from severe headaches. These ended in delirium and mania, and he was in bed a month with bad head symptoms. He was seen in consultation by Dr Hughlings Jackson, and meningitis was diagnosed ; but as he had been living freely, it was doubted whether syphilis was the sole cause. Recovery took place under treatment for the time being, and later on loss of speech, with numbness of the right hand, supervened. These symptoms came on rather
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