Diseases of the nervous system : a text-book of neurology and psychiatry . FiG. 279.—Brain of a paretic showing marked atrophy. Flaking of the cortex due to adhesions of the Fig. 280.—Organization of Virchow-Robin lymph spaces in general paresis. Tannin silver. (Achucarro.) TABES 557 ness, i. e., what today one would designate a sexual neurasthenia,or a sexual phobia. So far as can be made out from Littres Hippo-crates this is exactly what Hippocrates wrote about under the termtabes dorsalis. Even in the theses of Harles and Brera, in the early partof the nineteenth century, the relation
Diseases of the nervous system : a text-book of neurology and psychiatry . FiG. 279.—Brain of a paretic showing marked atrophy. Flaking of the cortex due to adhesions of the Fig. 280.—Organization of Virchow-Robin lymph spaces in general paresis. Tannin silver. (Achucarro.) TABES 557 ness, i. e., what today one would designate a sexual neurasthenia,or a sexual phobia. So far as can be made out from Littres Hippo-crates this is exactly what Hippocrates wrote about under the termtabes dorsalis. Even in the theses of Harles and Brera, in the early partof the nineteenth century, the relationbetween the cord, the vessels of thelower abdomen, and secretions from thegenito-urinary organs was held to be aclose one. As to the earliest observations ofmodern tabes, the traces are very in-distinct. To the clinicians of the six-teenth and seventeenth centuries, theconfused mass of paraplegias was prac-tically insoluble, and it would appearthat it was only in the beginning of thenineteenth century that the process ofdifferentiation took place. E. Horn(1816) called attention to a number ofthe important features including blind-ness; Weidenbach (1817) attempted tomake
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