Diseases of the nervous system : a text-book of neurology and psychiatry . Fig. 292.—Tabetic arthropathy with destruction of the joint and Fig. 293.—Charcot joint. Muscular Atrophies.—An initial neuritis may give rise to an earlymuscular atrophy, but atrophies are not common. 1 See Lapinsky, Arch. f. 40-42. 568 SYPHILIS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM Blood Serum and Cerebrospinal Fluid.—The Wassermann reactionof the blood serum is positive in most of the cases of tabes. The cere-brospinal [fluid Jis positive in from 60 to 80 per cent., and Plant is ofthe opinion that it will be found
Diseases of the nervous system : a text-book of neurology and psychiatry . Fig. 292.—Tabetic arthropathy with destruction of the joint and Fig. 293.—Charcot joint. Muscular Atrophies.—An initial neuritis may give rise to an earlymuscular atrophy, but atrophies are not common. 1 See Lapinsky, Arch. f. 40-42. 568 SYPHILIS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM Blood Serum and Cerebrospinal Fluid.—The Wassermann reactionof the blood serum is positive in most of the cases of tabes. The cere-brospinal [fluid Jis positive in from 60 to 80 per cent., and Plant is ofthe opinion that it will be found to be more often so with improvedtechnique. Nonne and Hauptmann, by using larger quantities ofserum, have established this. It seems to be less often positive than inparesis—which, in view of the opinion held concerning the identityof the two disorders is food for reflection regarding the local reactionof the brain and cord proper. There is a marked lymphocytosis of the fluid, which is usually foundin the early stages of the disorder, and is an index of the meningiticsyphilosis usually found. Course and Variation.—Tabes is essentially
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