Observations on diseases of the spinal marrow / by John Abercrombie.

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1817
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    OBSERVATIONS ON DISEASES OF THE SPINAL MARROW. BY J. ABERCROMBIE, M.D. FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, EDINBURGH. (From the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, No. 53. J rpoo little attention seems to have been paid in this country to -*• diseases of the spinal marrow. When we consider the delicacy of its structure, and its similarity to the structure of the brain, we expect to find it liable to numerous diseases, similar in their nature to the diseases of the brain : and when we recollect the numerous nerves that arise from it, we conclude that its dis- eases must have an extensive influence on many functions of the body. They open an interesting field of investigation, and, if prosecuted in a cautious and philosophical manner, promise im- portant results in the pathology of many diseases hitherto in- volved in much obscurity. By the ancients, much importance was attached to the spinal marrow as a seat of disease, especially in convulsive and paraly- tic affections. Alexander Trallian went so far as to maintain, that paralysis of the limbs has its origin in the brain, only when it is accompanied by paralysis of some part of the head, as the cyes or tongue; and that, when not accompanied by paralysis of A