Syphilis of the nervous system / by H.C. Wood.

  • Wood, H. C., Jr. (Horatio C.), 1841-1920.
Date:
1889
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    of this so-called precocious nervous syphilis. Alfrik Ljunggr6n, of Stockholm, reports ] the case of H. R , who had a rapidly-healed chancre in March, followed in May of the same year by a severe head- ache, mental confusion, and giddiness. Early in July H. R had an epileptic attack, but was finally cured by active antisyphilitic treatment. Although the history is not explicit, the nervous symptoms ap- pear to have preceded the development of distinct secondaries other than rheumatic pains. Davaine is said § to have seen paralysis of the portio dura a month after the first symptoms of con- stitutional syphilis. E. Leyden^[ found advanced specific degeneration of the cerebral arteries in a man who had contracted syphilis one year previously. R. W. Taylor details a case in which epilepsy occurred five months after the infection.* In the case of M. X , reported by Ad. Schwarz,f headache came on the fortieth day after the appearance of the primary sore, and a hemiplegia upon the forty-sixth day. S. L 1 had a paralytic stroke without prodromes six H Archiv f. Dermatol, u. Syphilis, 1870, ii, p. 155. § Buzzard, Syphilitic Nervous Affections, London, 1874* TZeitschriftf. klin. Med., Bd. v. 165. * Jour. Nervous and Mental Dis., 1876, p. 38. fDe 1' Hemiplegie Syphilitique Precoce, Inaug. Diss.' Paris, 1880. % Ibid.