Cause, Symptoms and Treatment of Lathyrism: A Specific Nutritional Neuropathy
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ment of the arms and sensory impairment as well. Minchin also noted affection of the bladder. Ruge and his co-workers (1925) and Ranjan (1944) described incontinence of urine and faeces as well as sexual impairment. It has been postulated that the disease is never progressive after a few days or weeks beyond the initial paralysis (Bicknell and Prescott, 1942). Ranjan (1944), however, notes rapid progress of the disease. The published accounts of
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