Cases of diseases of the nervous system in patients the subjects of inherited syphilis / by J. Hughlings-Jackson, M.D.

  • Jackson, J. Hughlings (John Hughlings), 1835-1911.
Date:
1868
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    cause, and in some of these cases syphilis may have been at the bottom of the mischief. I was consulted the other day by a woman 35 years of age, who had had palsy of both third nerves, and of both sixth nerves, from the age of six years, after scarlet fever. Were it not that syphilis rarely produces such symmetrical and com- plete local nervous symptoms, I should imagine there was in- herited taint in this case. Except for suspicious looking scars about the mouth, attributed to smallpox when three years old, and for the fact that her mother had been twelve times preg- nant and had but three children living, there was nothing to countenance the supposition. I have seen cases of deafness from congenital syphilis, but chiefly in Mr. Hutchinson's practice, and for an account of these cases I may refer the reader to his book— Clinical Memoir on certain Diseases of the Eye and Ear, consequent on Congenital Syphilis/' I