Archives of Medicine; A Bi-Monthly Journal Devoted to Original Communications on Medicine, Surgery, and Their Special Branches Volume 12 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ...to New Mexico. It is a well-man-_ aged, comfortable, and even luxurious road, and the welfare of the travelling public is constantly attended to. The eating-rooms at the stations all along the road are excellent, and directly under the railroad management.' Ihave tried to explain the situation to the best of my ability. The physician must choose for his patient, and the patient must get the best information obtainable. To those going to New Mexico either for health or pleasure, there is much to be seen and learned of which this short paper cannnot treat. To all a pleasant, profitable journey is most sincerely wished. ' The following is a schedule of rates to Las Vegas Hot Springs: Round trip, good. 1st class. 2d class. for ninety days. Chicago..... $46 15 $35 65 $57 80 Kansas City.... 31 35 27 75 37 80 Atchison, Kan.... 31 35 27 75 37 80 El Paso, Tex., to Hot Springs.... 22 80 ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE ANOMALOUS COURSE OF POSTERIOR SPINAL SCLEROSIS. BY E. C. SEGUIN, M.D. HE typical or normal course of the disease variously T known as posterior spinal sclerosis, progressive locomotor ataxia, or m_ore briefly, tabes dorsalis, has become generally known to the profession by the dissemination of recent text-books of diseases of the nervous system and of monographs upon the disease in question. The writings of Charcot and Erb particularly have been of service in thus rendering familiar the numerous symptoms of tabes and their grouping into three stages, viz.: the pre-ataxic or neuralgic stage, second the ataxic stage, and third the pseudoparalytic or bed-ridden stage. I prefer grouping the symptoms of typical cases into two stages only, viz.: a neuralgic pre-ataxic stage, and a second or ataxic stage. The so-called third stage is simply...