Diseases of the nervous system - a text-book of neurology and psychiatry (1915) (14596209289)

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Title: Diseases of the nervous system : a text-book of neurology and psychiatry

Year: 1915 (1910s)

Authors: Jelliffe, Smith Ely, 1866-1945 White, William A. (William Alanson), 1870-1937

Subjects: Mental Disorders Nervous System Diseases

Publisher: Philadelphia : Lea & Febiger

Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons

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Fig. 260.—Pseudobulbar palsy fromsyphilitic disease. (Tilney.) PARESIS 533 as the nervous system is concerned. Many ingenious hypotheseshave been formulated with the purpose of explaining the differencesbetween paresis and tabes, on the one hand, and other forms of nervoussyphilis, secondary or tertiary, on the other. It would serve littlepurpose to enumerate them in detail, since none has as yet compelledconviction.

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Fig. 261.—Cerebral_ syphilis (arterial type) with softening. Aphasia, hemiplegia,advancing dementia. (Lafora.) To return to the syphilitic etiology of paresis. It is practicallyconceded no syphilis, no paresis. One is not speaking now of thosefew individuals who, either because of the presence of brain tumor,or the existence of arteriosclerosis, or of other cerebral disorder, showa close clinical resemblance to paresis. Finally the findings by Moore and Noguchi of Treponema paUidumin twelve of seventy paretic brains serve to render more certain therelationship of the organism to the disease. But syphilis does not by any means necessarily lead to paresis, for- 534 SYPHILIS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM tunately. The most recent studies of Mettler show that about 2 percent, of those infected by syphiHs develop paresis. A considerablylarger percentage develop cerebrospinal syphilis—how large, can onlybe surmised.

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