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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    no date, one was 1825, one 1845, the nine remaining scattered through Parisian and other French hospitals. The conclusion I come to is this, that the subject of nervous syphilitic diseases was not taken up, as a stub- born reality, either in England or France, till after the notice it acquired in 1851 and 1853. I can confidently appeal to a critical examination of the cases, as published by M. Zambaco, that all my comments are in no degree overdrawn, and are adduced with no other purpose except that of an historic record, connected with an advancement in our real knowledge of a most serious malady still involved in great per- plexity and doubt, after 200 years of inquiry and obser- vation ; to offer anything except respect to the high talent, rare ability, and perseverance which M. Ricord has used in his long study of an intricate disease; and to M. Zambaco my deference and admiration of the manner in which he has executed his work, already honoured by the Imperial Academy of Medicine with the Civrieux Prize. M. Zambaco's comprehensive work on syphilitic nervous affections includes very nearly the entire roll of our nosological catalogue. His cases are ranged under the different heads of morbid action into which he has divided his essay. He first describes a form of syphilitic disease, Ner- vopathique Diathesique. 2nd, Des Neuralgies Syphi- litiques.' 3rd, Des Troubles de la Mobilite par Dia- these Syphilitique—in fact, paralysis of motion. 5th, De quelques Troubles de la Sensibilite et de la Mo- bility, bornees h un seul Membre et consecutives h la Compression des Troncs Nerveux, par des Tumeurs