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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    PREFACE. this point, I considered the question would undergo a just scrutiny by those whose opportunities in metropolitan hospitals would enable them to seek out and select cases bearing a similar syphilitic and pathological history. This ordeal and test of the faithfulness of the narration and description of the morbid evidence imputed to this nosological source having been for many years allowed and noticed in very many medical periodicals as well as monographs, I am thereby induced to collect and re-publish in a single volume the scattered communications which originally appeared in the 'Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medicine and Surgery,' with some cases not before published; an Appendix being added, containing some illustrative notes and references. It was in the year 1837 that I saw the first case* (No. 9, Second Series) which guided me, and fixed my attention on the discredited phenomena of syphilitic disease affecting the nervous system. This case (9th, Second Series) had been treated for eleven months for quotidian ague, which had resisted all the usual anti-periodic specifics in Corfu, where the disease had its beginning. The patient left Corfu on sick leave. In London he was again treated without success; also Dublin and Belfast: finally returned to his native place to render up his life among his family, of an inexorable malady. * Sec note and reference in the Appendix.