On some forms of paralysis from peripheral neuritis of gouty, alcoholic, diphtheritic, and other origin.

  • Buzzard, Thomas, 1821-1919.
Date:
1886
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Credit: On some forms of paralysis from peripheral neuritis of gouty, alcoholic, diphtheritic, and other origin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    you. The only direction that I found was that the lectures should be upon some subject of practical interest in medicine, surgery, or mid- wifery. In the choice which I have made, with whatever amount of success it may prove to be carried out, at least I can lay claim to the selec- tion of a subject the practical interest of which it would be difficult to surpass. The present generation has seen remarkable advances in our knowledge of diseases of the nervous sys- tem. A flood of light has been thrown upon the physiological anatomy and the pathology of the brain and spinal cord, and it is perhaps to some extent in consequence of this comparative concentration upon the central nervous system that the part played by the peripheral nerves in the production of symptoms of disease has not until recently received the amount of attention which it undoubtedly deserves. The improvement in our knowledge is largely due to the development of microscopical exami- nation. Science is indebted to the late Lockhart Clarke for the origination of processes of hardening and staining nerve tissue which have now acquired great perfection. How much of our acquaintance with diseases of the brain and spinal cord we owe to the microscope aided by methods of this kind is well known Jj