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Title: Alienist and neurologist.
Year: 1919 (1910s)
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Subjects: Neurology Psychology Psychiatry Psychology, Clinical Forensic Psychiatry
Publisher: St. Louis, Mo. : Ev.E. Carreras, Steam Printer, Publisher and Binder
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

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irochetes are incysted or encapsulated and resemblesour ideas of tertiary syphilis and is less amenable to treatment; quaternary, in whichwe have the residual effects of the spirochete in the form of destructive processes, notamenable to treatment and what Gaucher calls a quinternary form, which includes allof the gross anomalies and which are absolutely irresponsive to treatment. The term cure is here intended to mean the disappearance of the inflammatoryproducts and consequent symptomatology and not at all the complete destruction ofthe spirochete, for it is still an open question whether or not absolute sterilization isever effected after syphilitic infection. I am frequently asked in what percentage of persons affected by syphilis, thenervous system is involved? Knowing as we do the remarkable neurotropic tendencyof the spirochete, I firmly believe that in I 00 per cent, of cases of syphilis the nervoussystem is involved to a greater or less degree. 813-15 Kresge Medical Building.
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Page One Hundred Twenty-One THE EFFECTS OF TYPHOID FEVER ON THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. By C. C. HERSMAN, M. D., Pittsburgh, Pa. FTER having treated 3,000 or more cases of typhoid fever andthe sequelae, I find the sympathetic nervous system as an mtro-duction to my subject a most interesting study. It is so calledfrom the opinion entertained that through it is produced a sym-pathy between the affections of distant organs. It is describedin Wilson s Anatomy, English Edition, as consisting of a seriesof ganglia connected by intervening cords extending on each sideof the vertebral column from the base of the skull to the coccyx.It may, however, be traced up into the head, where the gangliawhich are m connection with the fifth nerve occupy the spacebetween the cranial and facial bones. These two gangliatedcords lie parallel to each other as far as the sacrum, upon whichbone they converge, coming together there as a single ganglion(ganglion impar) located in front of the coccyx. The twocords are j

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