Selected essays and monographs : translations and reprints from various sources.

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1897
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Credit: Selected essays and monographs : translations and reprints from various sources. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    B. 25 cases which were not discovered till the autopsy. C. 10 cases observed clinically only. D. Various cases. (a) G with congenital spinabifkla. (b) 4 with double or multiple central canal. (c) 2 of gliomata without cavities. Mdlle. Baiimler’s work indicates that cavities in the spinal cord are far from rare. Within recent years, however, the history of syringomyelia has entered on a new phase, one which we may call the clinical phase. During this period many monographs have appeared of much greater interest than their predecessors, since they have propounded the view that syringomyelia has a symptomatology of its own, and that in a number of cases the disease can be diagnosed at the bedside of the patient. This statement can be more readily accepted, as in several cases the diagnosis has been verified at the autopsy. Professor Charcot* had long recognized that certain muscular atrophies wrere due to syringomyelia. Thus he enumerates hydrcmyelia or syringomyelia, certain forms of myelitis with cavities, gliomata, and sarcomata of the cord as among the causes of muscular atrophy consequent upon affections of both white and grey matter of the cord. But it should be acknow- ledged that it is to Professor Schultzef of Dorpat and Professor KahlerJ of Prague that the honour belongs of having, as Charcot says in his lectures, “in a series of excellent publica- tions, commencing in 1882, associated with the lesions of syringomyelia certain functional and organic disturbances which, when they make their appearance clinically, enable us to diagnose the existence of the disease and even to determine the chief points in relation to its extent, and its precise localiza- tion.” Amongst the German writers who have contributed most towards our knowledge of syringomyelia since the publications of Kahler and Schultze are Bernhardt,§ Remak,|| Oppenheim,f * Charcot, Maladies du Systeme nerveux, T. II., p. 216. f Schultze, Zeitschrift fur klinische Medicin, T. XIII., 1888. + Kahler, Prayer vied. Wochenschrift, 1882 and 1888. § Bernhardt, Centralblalt f. Nervenheilkunde, 1887. || Remak, Deutsch. med. Wochenschrift, 1884. ^| Oppenheim, Charite Annalen, T. XI., 1S85.