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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    His rapidly failing power caused me to be con- sulted. On my first visit, I discovered what I then supposed to be a complication of constitutional syphilitic disease. On each internal malleolus I detected a node; also an abscess of the cranium, on the OS frontis, which had been opened in Corfu by one of the military surgeons. The most positive denial of the possibility of a venereal infec- tion restrained me from the employment of specific treatment. When the progress to death became inevitable, the patient related to me an incident in his life sufficiently confirmatory of my diagnosis to induce me to make one more efi'ort to save life. The perusal of the case will show with what marvellous quickness mercury interposed to avert dissolution and bring about his recovery. In 1845—1847 a succession of cases brought this subject again under my observation, but upon those occasions with such significance and promi- nence of symptoms, that I deemed it my duty to ofier the substance of my observations for publica- tion to the editor of the ' Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medicine and Surgery.' The editor declined the paper, on the ground that he would only publish original matter, and alleged that I had been anticipated by M. Ricord, of Paris. I requested him to refer me to the publica- tion. He said it was in the room, had his hand