Syphilitic affections of the nervous system : and a case of symmetrical muscular atrophy with other contributions to the pathology of the spinal marrow / by Thomas Reade.

  • Reade, Thomas.
Date:
1867
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Credit: Syphilitic affections of the nervous system : and a case of symmetrical muscular atrophy with other contributions to the pathology of the spinal marrow / by Thomas Reade. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and amusement: when in Belfast lie came to visit me. In the course of our conversation, I mentioned that if his visit had been on the previous day I would have asked him to see a patient of mine who had been in a very critical state, but chiefly I desired his opinion because the malady was an un- recognised disease. This led to my describing one of those cases of syphilitic disease of the nervous system. For the first time I found a physician perfectly conversant with the disease, and holding opinions on the nature of the disease, also on its treatment, conformable with my own views. He was greatly interested, and remained a long time with me discussing the subject. Dr. Todd's first clinical lecture was pubhshed in 1851. Subsequent to these incidents, it was perfectly accidental that my cases were ever published. The fortuitous meeting with the late Dr. Neligan at dinner in 1851 led to his informing me that he had just been induced to undertake the editorship of the ' Dublin Medical Journal,' and he expressed an earnest wish that provincial medical men could be induced to send contributions, as they could undoubtedly render valuable assistance to the periodical. I mentioned that I had in 1847 offered to his predecessor a paper, which I described to him, that had been refused, as not being original. He expressed a desire to have the paper, which I