VIRUS DISEASES AND THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

Virus Diseases and the Nervous System

PHYSIOLOGY OF SPINAL ANESTHESIA, 2nd Ed. By Nicholas M. Greene. Baltimore, Md., Williams and Wilkins Co., 1969. 243 pp. $9.75. The first edition of The Physiology of Spinal Anesthesia appeared in 1958. Its avowed purpose was to review and evaluate the literature "dealing with the physiological response to spinal anesthesia." While interest in spinal anesthesia has steadily waned during the inte...

Virus diseases of the nervous system.

O 30: Peripheral Nervous System Diseases and Inflammation

Inflammatory neuropathies may be due to infection (with a specific casual agent identified) including Lyme disease, HIV, Leprosy, Herpes Zoster, Hepatitis B & C. The other group of are Autoimmune or possibly infectious (but with no specific causal infectious agent identified) including sarcoidosis, Guillain-Barre syndrome/ acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy ( AIDP), chronic in...

Virus diseases of the central nervous system; a review.

CLASSIFICATION The virus diseases of the central nervous system are of growing importance. Some are apparently increasing in incidence, others are newly recognized. Even in a country like Great Britain the more exotic types may be seen in these days when air travel has brought the remotest parts of the tropics within one or two days' travelling time of North-western Europe. They may be classifi...

Diseases of the Nervous System