On infantile paralysis and some allied diseases of the spinal cord : their diagnosis and treatment / by Julius Althaus.

  • Althaus, Julius.
Date:
1878
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Credit: On infantile paralysis and some allied diseases of the spinal cord : their diagnosis and treatment / by Julius Althaus. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ♦ Although Ollivier's large and important work on diseases of the spinal cord appeared as long ago as 1824, yet it may be truly said that a more precise knowledge of the affections to which that organ is liable, is of very recent date ; and there are now few departments of pathology in which so much remains to be accomplished as in the one to which I purpose to draw attention in this paper. In- deed, the more we have come to know of it, the more abundant appears the crop of fresh problems w^hich spring up at every step, and for which we are as yet totally unable to offer a satisfactory solution. With regard to the functions of the cord in health, there was more agreement amongst physiologists thirty years ago than there is at the present day. It is true that we are now much better acquainted with certain functions of the grey matter in the centre of the cord, and of the white posterior columns, than was formerly the case ; yet we seem, after a number of ingenious experi- mental investigations, more in the dark than ever B