POST-DIPHTHERITIC RESPIRATORY PARALYSIS CAUSING PULMONARY COMPLICATIONS
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The Pathogenesis of Diphtheritic Paralysis
perimental observers have regarded the nervous complications of diphtheria as the result of selective hematogenous toxaemia of the nervous system. Other hypotheses have also been put forward, e.g., Mendel attributed the palatal paralysis to the fact that the nerves of this structure were bathed in toxin from the neighbouring infectiye focus; Babonneix and others hold that the process is of the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal Of Nervous and Mental Disease
سال: 1890
ISSN: 0022-3018
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-189011000-00019