Syphilitic affections of the nervous system : and a case of symmetrical muscular atrophy with other contributions to the pathology of the spinal marrow / by Thomas Reade.

  • Reade, Thomas.
Date:
1867
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Credit: Syphilitic affections of the nervous system : and a case of symmetrical muscular atrophy with other contributions to the pathology of the spinal marrow / by Thomas Reade. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SYPHILITIC AFFECTIONS OF many attacks of cranial pain, want of sleep, pain, enlargement of bones and joints, and very lately he has had double sarcocele; all have, more or less, readily yielded to the hydriodate of potash. The doses are now raised to half a drachm three times daily. He has the confirmed syphilitic diathesis; but he makes out life versus disease, with good gi-ounds to expect his constitution will finally surmount his malady; his life has never, since the paralysis, been in the slightest danger. Case II.—Syphilitic Meningitis; Menial Incompe- tence; Incoherence; Suicidal Propensity ; Paralysis. Mr. M—, a gentleman about twenty-six years of age, was attacked with hemiplegia of the right side while travelling in the night mail. His intellect was dis- ordered, and he was incapable of appreciating his own state and directing accordingly. A clergyman, who lodged in the same house, requested me to see this gentleman about eighteen hours after the attack. He informed me that, some months before, he had observed incomprehensible ramblings in his conversation, and the expression of strange and incongruous ideas. This had become apparent in the course of his daily occu- pation, one of trust and considerable mental labour; and the head of the establishment had placed him under the care of his own physician, a gentleman of experience and in extensive practice, who considered it requisite to have every means for self-destruction removed out of his reach. After some length of treatment he advised change of scene, and all the adventitious aid of new associations and amusements, if possible, to change