Arsenical Peripheral Neuritis

Arsenical Neuritis

use of impure acids containing arsenic used for the manufacture of glucose and " invert" sugar. The number of cases amounted to over 6,000 and of deaths to at least 70. Many deaths returned as due to, "alcoholic neuritis" "alcoholism," "locomotor ataxy," &c., were probably caused by arsenical poisoning. Since the exposure of the cause of the outbreak and discontinuance of the use of impure acid...

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...