Pain in its neuro-pathological, diagnostic, medico-legal, and neuro-therapeutic relations / By J. Leonard Corning.
- James Leonard Corning
- Date:
- 1894
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Credit: Pain in its neuro-pathological, diagnostic, medico-legal, and neuro-therapeutic relations / By J. Leonard Corning. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.
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![it may be mistaken for grave disease of the spinal cord; but the exquisite tenderness of the nerves and the absence of bladder and rectal symptoms will usually serve to reveal its true peripheral nature. Gowers has recently published a highly suggestive paper on this type of neuritis. The Neuritis of Leprosy.—Although alterations of greater or less extent have been noted in the cerebro-spinal axis, and especially in the cord, in leprosy, these appearances must be regarded as exceptional, inasmuch as many observers have seen them but rarely, while others have altogether failed to find them. On the other hand, nothing is more certain than that inflammations of the nerves, as- suming the form of interstitial and parenchymatous neuritis, play an important part in the evolution of many of the symptoms of this dreadful disease. Leloir,^ in his classical monograph, has given an elaborate account of the genesis of this neuritis. According to his researches, which in their main features coincide with those of ]Neisser and Hansen, the inflammation of the nerve is due to the virus of the micro-organism of leprosy; for this bacillus 1 Traite Pratique et Theorique de la L^pre, by Henri Leloir, Paris, 1886, p. 248.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21225448_0057.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
