Paraplegic Eunuch with Lues

Hostility in Eunuch Patient-an Experience with 153 Cases

The idea for this study came to the mind of the authors by spate of incidences in which the aggrieved mob destroyed the property of the hospital and at times conducted physical violence against doctors, nurses and health workers in India over the last decade. If the noble profession could meet such a fate the question arises as to why? Once we explored the amphitheatre of grievance and resurgen...

Paraplegic para-articular calcification.

Abnormal ossification or calcification of the joints is seen in osteo-arthritis, Charcot's joints, and the Pellegrini-Stieda syndrome; less well-known is that seen in the soft tissues not involving the joint surface, consequent upon disease or injury of the nervous system. This condition has a variety of names: "para-osteo-arthropathy" (Dejerine, Ceillier, and Dejerine, 1919); "neurogenic ossif...

Arsenical encephalopathy occurring in the treatment of lues during pregnancy.

The dangers of treatment of syphilis are often minimized; one of the most serious complications of arsenical treatment is encephalopathy. This complication is rare, but is associated with a high mortality. There is apparently some difference of opinion and experience regarding the increased hazards oftreatment oflues during pregnancy. Earle Moore and others (1948) emphasize the rarity of arseni...

Emasculation: gloves-off strategy enhances eunuch spider endurance.

Males of sexually cannibalistic spiders commonly mutilate parts of their paired genitals (palps) during copulation, which may result in complete emasculation or the 'eunuch phenomenon'. In an orb-web nephilid spider, Nephilengys malabarensis, about 75 per cent of males fall victim to sexual cannibalism, and the surviving males become half-eunuchs (one palp emasculated) or full-eunuchs (both pal...

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