Syphilis of the brain and spinal cord : showing the part which this agent plays in the production of paralysis, epilepsy, insanity, headache, neuralgia, hysteria, hypochondriasis, and nervous derangements / by Thomas Stretch Dowse.

  • Dowse, Thomas Stretch.
Date:
1879
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Credit: Syphilis of the brain and spinal cord : showing the part which this agent plays in the production of paralysis, epilepsy, insanity, headache, neuralgia, hysteria, hypochondriasis, and nervous derangements / by Thomas Stretch Dowse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INDEX TO CASES. Case I. Syphilis of internal and external table of the skull in the posterior part of right superior-antero parietal area, exercising pressure upon the convolutions bounding the upper extremity of the fissure of Rolando, slight paralysis—Recovery, 19. Case II. Intermittent paralysis of the lower limbs—Of motion only ; presumably from syphilitic growth, proceeding from the bodies of the nth and 12th dorsal vertebrae, and involving by pressure the anterior columns of the spinal cord, the membranes and nerves ; producing severe reflex and automatic movements. (Spinal Epi- lepsy.)—Recovery, 20. Case III. Syphilis of Pons Varolii and Crus. Cerebri, involving the 3rd, 5th, and 7th nerves : slight alternate paralysis of sensation and motion—Complete right facial paralysis and intense neuralgia of the right half of head and face—Recoveiy, 26. Case IV. Syphilis of Pia Mater, involving convolutional surfaces ol anterior lobes—Epileptogenesis—Recovery, 30. Case V. Syphilitic inflammation of the Pia Mater of the Spinal Cord in lower dorsal region—Partial paralysis of the lower limbs— Recovery, 32. Case VI. Syphilis of the Spinal Cord in theDorso-lumbar region— Paralysis of lower limbs—Recovery, 33. Case VII. Constitutional Syphilis—Paralysis of cerebro-spinal nerves —Recovery, 35. Case VIII. Syphilitic disease of Brain—Defects of speech, with fits of partial unconsciousness—Alternate paralysis ; sometimes of all the extremities, sometimes of the left leg only, but usually of the right—Recovery, 39. Case IX. Vaso-motor derangement—Recurring storms of sympathetic symptoms—Absence of the ordinary signs of Hysteria—Acquired Syphilis—Recovery, 43. Case X. Chronic Syphilis—Vaso-motor Paresis—Sympathetic depres- sion—Recovery, 44. Case XI. Vaso-motor Paresis—Sympathetic depression—Hypochon- driasis—Syphilis —Recovery, 45. Case XII. Vaso-motor depression — Constant vomiting—Incipient Mania— Syphilis—Recovery, 46. Case XIII. Syphilitic changes at the base of the Brain, involving especially the optic nerve and Gasserian Ganglion—Recovery, 50. Case XIV. Neuralgia of Sciatic nerve—Atrophy of right buttock— Neurosal and Syphilitic history—Recovery, 51. Case XV. Syphilitic softening of right anterior and posterior central convolutions, the adjacent convolutions being more or less in- volved—Left hemiplegia, and arrest of death by the Galvanic current, 62.