On sclerosis of the spinal cord : including locomotor ataxy, spastic spinal paralysis, and other system-diseases of the spinal cord, their pathology, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment / by Julius Althaus.

Date:
1885
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Credit: On sclerosis of the spinal cord : including locomotor ataxy, spastic spinal paralysis, and other system-diseases of the spinal cord, their pathology, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment / by Julius Althaus. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    CONTENTS. PAGE, CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. Definition of Sclerosis or Induration—Different Forms of it— Systems of the Spinal Cord—Flechsig's Researches on Evo- lution — Bnrdach's or Postero-external Columns — Goll's or Postero-intemal Columns—Direct Cerebellar Strands—Crossed Pyramidal Strands—Anomalies of Evolution the Base of the Neurotic Constitution . 1 CHAPTER II. MOEBID ANATOMY OF TABES SPINALIS. The Spinal Membranes—The Posterior Columns—Modes of Re- search—Hardening and Slaining—Pierret's and Striimpell's Researches on Posterior Sclerosis—Posterior Nerve-roots—The Spinal Ganglia—The Central Grey Matter—The Lateral Columns —The Sympathetic System of Nerves—The Brain—The Cranial Nerves—the Spinal Nerves—Researches by Pitres and Vaillard —Arthropathies . 14 CHAPTER III. PATHOGENESIS OF TAMES. Theories of Duchenne and Neftel—The Brain—The Sympathetic System of Nerves—The Posterior Nerve-roots—Herbert Page's Corn-theory—Spinal Meningitis—The Blood Vessels, Neuroglia and Tubes of the Posterior Columns— Sensitive Tabes . 38