. Text-book of nervous diseases; being a compendium for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . Ip^Pt /? Fig. 51.—Diphtheritic Neuritis, Chiefly Interstitial (Siemerling); withsecondary degeneration. whelms the system before it has time to set up any inflammationor organic change. In these cases the anterior-horn cells of thespinal cord are also involved and the disease is one that attacks thewhole peripheral motor neuron. Pathology.—In multiple neuritis the disease affects the peripheryof the nerves most, and extends up, very rarely reaching the anterior tibial and mu
. Text-book of nervous diseases; being a compendium for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . Ip^Pt /? Fig. 51.—Diphtheritic Neuritis, Chiefly Interstitial (Siemerling); withsecondary degeneration. whelms the system before it has time to set up any inflammationor organic change. In these cases the anterior-horn cells of thespinal cord are also involved and the disease is one that attacks thewhole peripheral motor neuron. Pathology.—In multiple neuritis the disease affects the peripheryof the nerves most, and extends up, very rarely reaching the anterior tibial and musculo-spinil nerves on the two sides areoftenest and most diseased. The process when mild in grade re-sembles a secondary degeneration following section of the severer cases there is evidence of interstitial inflammation as well 92 DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. as degeneration (Fig. 51). This process, however, varies in degreeat different points of the nerves course. Hence it has been calledsegmental or disseminated neuritis. In some of these cases and inall acute pernicious cases there is still mor
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