Syphilis and parasyphilis of the nervous system / by F.W. Mott.

  • Frederick Walker Mott
Date:
[1909?]
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    Syphilis and Parasyphilis of the Nervous System. By F. W. Mott, M.D., F.E.S. The causal connexion of tabes dorsalis and general paralysis with syphilis is now so firmly established in the minds of most neurologists that it would be absurd, in dealing with such an important question as syphilis of the nervous system, not to include these parasyphilitic affections. Diseases of the nervous system due to syphilis may then be classified thus :— (I) (a) Syphilitic diseases of the brain, comprising the following forms : Basic meningitis, meningitis of the convexity, cerebrospinal meningitis, arteritis, and, lastly, gummatous tumours. My experience, indicated by a large number of recorded cases in which autopsies were performed, shows that all these conditions may be more or less combined in the severe and early forms of the disease, {h) Syphilitic diseases of the spinal cord. These diseases are all due to the direct effects of the syphilitic virus upon the mesoblastic nutrient, enclosing and supporting tissues of the central nervous system, causing secondary degenerative changes in the essential nervous elements. (II) Parasyphilitic affections : {a) Tabes dorsalis ; {h) Tabes optica ; (c) Paralytic dementia. In syphilitic disease of the nervous system we divide our cases into spinal and cerebral for clinical convenience, but my experience as a