On 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...

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

Peripheral neuropathy (peripheral neuritis) with bronchiectasis.

The ill-defined group of conditions comprising the syndrome of peripheral or multiple neuritis led Walshe (1946) to ask for a more precise definition. Elkington (1952) pointed out the advantages of the new term " peripheral neuropathy," as it avoids the suggestion that all the lesions are inflammatory in origin. Haymaker and Kernohan (1949), in a comprehensive study of peripheral neuropathy, fo...