. Text-book of nervous diseases; being a compendium for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . ensive, often involving trunk and cranialnerves, and accompanied by much pain and wasting. Cramps and skineruptions are often noted, complications that do not occur in the ordinarytypes. There are sporadic forms of multiple neuritis occasionally seen iuthis country, but it is yet to be proved that the malarial Plasmodium canalone cause neuritis. It is more likely that it acts only in conjunction with,some other toxic condition. GENERAL DISEASES OF THE PEKIPHERAL NERVES. 91 causes death i
. Text-book of nervous diseases; being a compendium for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . ensive, often involving trunk and cranialnerves, and accompanied by much pain and wasting. Cramps and skineruptions are often noted, complications that do not occur in the ordinarytypes. There are sporadic forms of multiple neuritis occasionally seen iuthis country, but it is yet to be proved that the malarial Plasmodium canalone cause neuritis. It is more likely that it acts only in conjunction with,some other toxic condition. GENERAL DISEASES OF THE PEKIPHERAL NERVES. 91 causes death in a few days or weeks. These cases usually show theordinary symptoms of neuritic paralysis, with final involvement ofthe cardiac and respiratory nerves, causing death. The agent iuthese cases is apparently of the nature of sepsis. The neuritis isinterstitial and hemorrhagic. Other cases of acute pernicious mul-tiple neuritis take the form of acute ascending or Landrys paraly-sis. Here there are few sensory symptoms, no electrical changes oratrophy. The disease is due to an infectious poison which over-. Ip^Pt /?l.
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