ALCOHOLIC PERIPHERAL NEURITIS IN ADVANCED AGE

Case of Alcoholic Peripheral Neuritis

Naick Vrnkannah Naidoo (writer) aged thirty-eight, service eight years, admitted to hospital on 21st June 1899, complaining of pain in the calves of the legs; numbness over the abdomen ; inability to walk far from weakness of the legs, breathlessness, and palpitation; swelling of the feet; and passage of blood by the rectum. Previous health.?His medical history sheet showed two admissions for r...

Peripheral Neuritis

Peripheral Neuritis

By the term Peripheral or Multiple Neuritis is meant an inflammation of the nerve-trunks after their exit from the cranial and intervertebral foramina. I propose to confine myself to those cases only in which many nerve-trunks are invaded progressively, and to the varieties of this large group of diseases of which I have here some instances. Excluding, then, altogether cases of neuritis limited...

Peripheral Neuritis

On Peripheral Neuritis

work, to an equally extensive and thorough acquaintance wit*1 the great advances made during the last thirty years in the theory and practice of nervous diseases. To his ability to brifo to bear on recent discoveries all that was true and worthy survive from the past, we think he owed that far-reaching poWef of generalisation and the broad grasp of his subject which distinguish his writings. Fo...