Peripheral neuritis after addiction to petrol.

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 neuritis due to hydrazide derivatives.

The antituberculous activity of isoniazid used alone or in combination with streptomycin or para-aminosalicylic acid (PAS) has been established.’ One of the most favorable properties of isoniazid is the low incidence of significant toxicity resulting from its use when doses of 3 to 5 mg. per kilogram per day are administered. Some of the reactions reported include toxic psychosis, convulsions, ...

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...