tabes dorsalis

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The work of Flexner and Noguchi on paresis and tabes dorsalis show that always in such afflictions the tissues of the central nervous system have been invaded by the parasite.

From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Guyer, Michael F.

Neuro-Arthropathies.—Charcot's disease is usually met with in men over thirty who suffer from tabes dorsalis.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

There is none of the distress caused by true an�sthesia, as, for instance, by the "tabetic mask," or insensibility of part of the face, which sometimes occurs in tabes dorsalis.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

It is called, in the language of physicians, tabes dorsalis, or dorsal consumption; because it is supposed to arise from the dorsal portion of the spinal marrow.

From The Young Man's Guide by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

In tabes dorsalis faradic treatment will often diminish the anaesthesia and numbness in the legs, with resulting benefit to the ataxy.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various