tabes

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Lucan seems to have described this serpent in the following lines: Hic, quæ prima caput movit de pulvere tabes Aspida somniferum tumida cervice levârit.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

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 may result also from the pressure of an abscess or an aneurysm either inside the pelvis or in the buttock, and is sometimes associated with disease of the spinal medulla, such as tabes.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis

There is no doubt, for instance, that certain cases of intractable dyspepsia are associated with tabes and that in nearly the same way obstinate constipation frequently develops.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

The Frenkel Method.—In recent years the application of the Frenkel directed movement method, modified somewhat from its application in tabes, has attracted attention in the therapeutics of paralysis agitans.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)