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Taken altogether, this book represents work and thought in which, for amount and kind, the neurologists of Boston may take just pride.
James J. Putnam.
St. Hubert’s, Keene Valley, New York.
August, 1917.
Me miserable! which way shall I fly
Infinite wrath and infinite despair?
Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell;
And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep
Still threatening to devour me opens wide,
To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Paradise Lost, Book IV, lines 73–78.
I. THE NATURE AND FORMS OF SYPHILIS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM (NEUROSYPHILIS)
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PARADIGM to show possible abundance and variety of symptoms and lesions in DIFFUSE NEUROSYPHILIS (“cerebrospinal syphilis”). Autopsy.
Case 1.
At the age of 27, she developed iritis, paresis of the left eye muscles, and ulceration of the throat, with destruction of the uvula. The syphilitic nature of her disease was at once recognized and the classical treatment was given, although, through numerous shifts in consultants, this treatment was never pushed to the limit. At 28 Mrs. M. began to suffer from severe headaches resembling migraine and accompanied by attacks of paræsthesia; at 35, came severe pains in the back and difficulty in walking.