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The Medical Kipling—Syphilis, Tabes Dorsalis, and Romberg's Test
Rudyard Kipling was the first English author to win the Nobel Prize for literature. He received this honor when he was not yet 42 years old. Indeed, Kipling's career is remarkable for its precocious success. His collection of verse Departmental Ditties was published when he was 20 years old. When he first went to England in 1889, he was already a well-known writer. In his short story Love-o'-Wo...
متن کاملTabes dorsalis: electrodiagnostic features.
Electrodiagnostic data have not been previously reported in tabes dorsalis. A patient with tabes dorsalis is described whose nerve conduction studies and median nerve somatosensory evoked responses (SEPs) were normal. H-reflexes were absent. SEPs of the tibial nerve suggested posterior column dysfunction. These electrodiagnostic findings correlate precisely with the known pathology of tabes dor...
متن کاملTabes dorsalis and perforated duodenal ulcer.
Connor (I91o) published a case of a brakeman, aged 42, who died in hospital following an acute febrile attack and vomiting. There had been no abdominal pain, tenderness or rigidity to explain the condition but autopsy revealed a perforated appendix abscess and peritonitis. Hanser (I9I9) recorded the case of a tabetic previously unknown to him who although having no abdominal signs or symptoms w...
متن کاملTabes Dorsalis and Argyll Robertson Pupils.
A 47-year-old man with a history of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection presented with an 8-month history of severe paroxysmal shooting pains in his legs, progressive difficulty in walking, tinnitus, and urinary incontinence. He had a fully suppressed HIV viral load and a CD4+ count of 400 cells per cubic millimeter while receiving antiretroviral therapy. The physical examination showe...
متن کاملThe Mercurial Treatment of Tabes Dorsalis
The question of the mercurial treatment of tabes has been very often debated in congresses and also learned societies in France during recent years. Diametrically opposite opinions have been expressed with equal firmness. On the side of the syphilographers, Fournier, Gaucher and Hallopeau trace a very fine dividing-line between syphilitic spinal complications which may be treated
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Brain
سال: 1881
ISSN: 0006-8950,1460-2156
DOI: 10.1093/brain/3.4.566