Nerve conduction in alcoholic polyneuropathy.

SYMMMS of alcoholic Peripheral neuropathy were first recognized by ' S Lettsom (1787) who described hypermsthesiae and paralysis, affecting the ` r legs more than the arms. He, and later Jackson (1822), delineated the late ^ ^y ^ G^ `^ stage of peripheral nerve affection. Much clinical observation since then ','^ .c 0 has shown that the neuropathy in alcoholics varies widely in seve rity. We S ^G ^ c aci have studied peripheral nerve conduction velocities in chronic alcoholics 1ha1 car ' with the aim of assessing the pattern and development of alcoholic 3 Y polyneuropathy.