CONCERNING A TYPICAL POLYNEURITIS

Studies Concerning Ship Beri-Beri. — Polyneuritis of Poultry

Among the diseases that have of late attracted the attention of the official medical authorities of Norway, the so-called Ship Beri-Beri occupies a prominent place. The symptoms of this disease consist, in the great majority of cases, in weakness and a pronounced dropsy of the lower limbs, extending often to other parts of the body. There also exists shortness of breath, and other symptoms of a...

Toxic Polyneuritis

of Ten Cases Presenting Some Unusual Features By R. S. ALLISON, M.D., M.R.C.P.(LOND.), AND W. H. PATTERSON, M.D. NEURITIS is a common complaint and a term often loosely used to describe indefinite sensory symptoms. Polyneuritis or peripheral neuritis is, however, a definite entity and much less common. Harris (1) classifies its causes into four main groups (a) Caused by the absorption of poison...

Relapsing Polyneuritis

Polyneuritis Complicating Herpes Zoster

A 47-year-old male bank clerk was admitted to the Bristol Royal Infirmary on 7th October i963. On admission he gave a history of anorexia for 2 weeks and left sided upper abdominal Pain for x week. Vesicles had been present over the painful area for 6 days. On the day before Emission he awoke in the morning and found that he had lost the use of all his limbs. There ^vere no bulbar symptoms. In ...

Polyneuritis in Haemochromatosis.

Case Report A male taxi-driver, aged forty-seven, was admitted to the Dorset County Hospital on 7.9.60. He was a diabetic of five years standing on I8o g. of carbohydrate and 8o units of lente insulin daily. Following an attack of diarrhaea and vomiting he gave a five days' history of increasing weakness in the legs. Examination. He was thin, slightly icteric, with sparse axillary and pubic hai...