Case of Acute Ascending Paralysis Due to Influenza
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The influenza organism is one which can affect injuriously practically all the systems of the human body. When it affects the nervous system it can bring about a manifestation of one or other of practically all the symptoms of nervous system diseases. It can produce mental disturbances? paraplegias -? hemiplegias monoplegias. It can pick out certain strands in the cerebro-spinal axis and can induce the symptoms of a lateral sclerosis a progressive muscular atrophy or even a locomotor ataxy. It can produce a polyneuritis, and it can pick out certain nerves for the manifesta-
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دوره 19 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2017