. A practical treatise on medical diagnosis for students and physicians . Alcoholic polyneuritis. Foot-drop and wrist-drop. of the nerve, which later becomes ansesthetic, and is often associated withhyperalgesia (ancesthesia, dolorosa). Vasomotor and trophic changes arecommon. The course is usually favorable—that is, in time, either as aresult of reparative processes in the nerve or by compensatory action ofthe adjacent nerves, the sensory disturbances disappear. Multiple neuritis is characterized by the appearance of the symptomsof the disease in a number of nerves at the same time. The nerve
. A practical treatise on medical diagnosis for students and physicians . Alcoholic polyneuritis. Foot-drop and wrist-drop. of the nerve, which later becomes ansesthetic, and is often associated withhyperalgesia (ancesthesia, dolorosa). Vasomotor and trophic changes arecommon. The course is usually favorable—that is, in time, either as aresult of reparative processes in the nerve or by compensatory action ofthe adjacent nerves, the sensory disturbances disappear. Multiple neuritis is characterized by the appearance of the symptomsof the disease in a number of nerves at the same time. The nerves ofthe limbs are far more frequently affected than those of the trunk. Thesymptoms are modified by the cause. In alcoholic polyneuritis there are 1158 DISEASES OF THE XEEVOUS SYSTEM. usually slight parsesthesi^e of the limbs, with marked paresis of themuscles, particularly the extensors, giving rise to foot-drop and wrist-drop. (See Fig. 392.) The disease usually aifects all four lead-poisoning the disease is sometimes unilateral, is usually restricte
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