. A manual of diseases of the nervous system. formation of tissue and thickening of the walls of the vessels,both processes extending into the cord from the pi a mater, in which asimilar damage exists. This form may be subchronic in course, andpresents some histological correspondence to known syphilitic pro-cesses. (2) A focal very chronic indurating myelitis, such as shownin Fig. 106, which has no distinctively syphilitic feature, may occur in OHEONIO MYELITIS. 381 very late stages of the constitutional disease. In neither form doesthe influence of treatment afford evidence of the relation t
. A manual of diseases of the nervous system. formation of tissue and thickening of the walls of the vessels,both processes extending into the cord from the pi a mater, in which asimilar damage exists. This form may be subchronic in course, andpresents some histological correspondence to known syphilitic pro-cesses. (2) A focal very chronic indurating myelitis, such as shownin Fig. 106, which has no distinctively syphilitic feature, may occur in OHEONIO MYELITIS. 381 very late stages of the constitutional disease. In neither form doesthe influence of treatment afford evidence of the relation to the second, sclerotic variety it does not appear that treatment hasany power to modify the morbid process, and in the first it is evidentthat any cicatricial process that could be induced would only maintainthe damage to the nerve-elements, which would suffer further from themaintained or renewed compression under the prolonged contractionof the enclosing: tissue. Yet the occurrence of these forms in the Fia. 106. Fi&.
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