. Geriatrics; the diseases of old age and their treatment, including physiological old age, home and institutional care, and medico-legal relations . e acute myelitis ofearlier life, presenting the same lesions and symptoms. Ithas a greater tendency though to become chronic. Chronic myelitis following the acute attacks is of shortduration. In these cases vesical and intestinal paresis generallyfollow with consequent autointoxications, sepsis and form of chronic myelitis differs from the senile myelitisin which there is a slow, progressive, but never complete,paraplegia, and the
. Geriatrics; the diseases of old age and their treatment, including physiological old age, home and institutional care, and medico-legal relations . e acute myelitis ofearlier life, presenting the same lesions and symptoms. Ithas a greater tendency though to become chronic. Chronic myelitis following the acute attacks is of shortduration. In these cases vesical and intestinal paresis generallyfollow with consequent autointoxications, sepsis and form of chronic myelitis differs from the senile myelitisin which there is a slow, progressive, but never complete,paraplegia, and the intestines and bladder are but slightly ifat all involved. Treatment is the same as in earlier life. Compression myelitis is almost always due to veretbralcaries or carcinoma. A very rare cause which does not prevailin earlier life is the compression produced by a beady hardeningof the vertebral artery in arteriosclerosis of that vessel. Thesymptoms are the same as in maturity and depend upon thelocation of the lesion. The causes being persisting and in- ^«V/^w^,W Tremorgraph—^lultiple sclerosis. (Xeuslaed-ter, Med. Record, July 17, 1909.). Tremorgraph—^Multiple sclerosis. (Neustaedter,Record, July 17, 1909.) Med. \j^\M I ^. ^ wiy^ ^ > Tremorgraph—Dementia paralytica. (Neustaedter, Med. Record, July i 1909.) CEREBRAL DISEASES 475 creasing in force or extent, the symptoms also persist andusually become more intense or involve larger areas, and thereare no remissions. The compression myelitis due to caries isslowly progressive and there is a dull ache. When due tocancer it is rapidly progressive with intense pain. The treatment depends upon the cause. Orthopedic ap-pliances are indicated in cases of caries without abscess. Tuber-culosis or syphilis when present must receive appropriate treat-ment. Cancer being usually a secondary condition followingcancer in other tissues, nothing can be done except to relievethe symptoms. It may be necessary to resort to narcotics ins
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