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Areas of degenerative changes in spinal cord

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Title: A text-book of practical medicine, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Loomis, Alfred L. (Alfred Lebbeus), 1831-1895
Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: New York, W. Wood and company
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ease. Treatment.—The best method of treatment yet proposed is the restora-tive ; the object is to improve nutrition. Among the drugs that have beenused, especially by Charcot and his followers, are chloride of gold, phos-phate of zinc, nitrate of silver, chloride of barium, potassium iodide andbromide, arsenic, belladonna, calabar bean, and ergot. The galvanic cur-rent is the best means of administering electricity. Opinion is divided asto the benefit obtained from hot or cold baths and thermal springs, or in-unctions and massage. Pain not infrequently becomes so severe as to de-mand hypodermic injections of morphine. Leyden reports a case of almost complete cure from galvanism and the baths of Kehme.—Beit. z. acuteu. chron. Myelitis. Zeitsch.fiir klin. Med. Berlin, 1879, i., p. 126. 1018 DISEASES OF THE KERVOUS SYSTEM. LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA, Locomotor ataxia is one of the most frequent diseases of the spinalcord.Morbid Anatomy.—Its principal pathological lesion is an increase in the
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J>03ierior. Pig. 209.Diagram illustrating the Regions of Degenerative Changes in the Spinal Cord. A. Pyramidal tracts. B. Anterior columns. C. Haddon and Goiuer^s lateral sensory tract. D. Mixed zone of lateral columns. E. Processus reiic^ilaris. F. Crossed pyramidal tracts. G. Bi7ect cerebellar tracts.p. Postero-external columns. I. Postero-internal columns. Columns of Goll. After Flechsig. interstitial connective-tissue of the spinal cord. As the cord is removedfrom the spinal canal there will be noticed a grayish discoloration on bothsides of the posterior median fissure. The pia and dura mater will bemore or less firmly adherent to each other ; and the dura mater may bethickened, pigmented, opaque and studded with osseous plaques ; the piamater may be congested and there may be an exudation into its meshes.The posterior aspect of the cord may appear atrophied, and have a firm,hard feel. In advanced cases the whole cord is smaller than normal. A cross section will show an increa

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