The pathological prodromes of taboparesis : syphilis, meningitis, the genesis of the cranial nerve, implications / by Tom A. Williams.

  • Williams, Tom A. (Tom Alfred), 1870-
Date:
1910
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Credit: The pathological prodromes of taboparesis : syphilis, meningitis, the genesis of the cranial nerve, implications / by Tom A. Williams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It seems very probable, therefore, that syphilis of the nervous system sometimes may be traced directly back to the general infection following the chancre, Fig. II.—Part of the pneumogastric nerve of same Case IX, showing endoneuritis and arachnoid hyperplasia; very little myeline remains in fascicles a, b and c (Von Gieson). and that chronic meningitis is merely the persistent state of the secondary period; for it must be re- membered that nervous accidents may occur in the secondary period, and that examination of these re- veals always a lymphocytosis, as in the case de- i6