On some forms of paralysis from peripheral neuritis : of gouty, alcoholic, diphtheritic, and other origin / by Thomas Buzzard.

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1886
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    tion, depend upon altered conduction in nerve- fibres, and not upon central changes, but was disposed to refer these alterations of conduc- tivity to pressure upon the roots of nerves by inflammatory changes in the membranes. At that time the idea that paralysis of a more or less universal kind could depend upon lesion of the periphery of the nerve-trunks, the central portions being undamaged, was not entertained. The case is so important that I think it well to give a brief account of it, as well as of another, manifestly of similar character, which came before me in 1879. Dr. Ross, in referring to these cases in the second edition of his admirable work on the ‘ Diseases of the Nervous System,’ has also expressed the opinion that they were examples of progressive multiple neuritis. I have described them* under the head of “ rapid and almost universal paralysis,” remarking that “ it was convenient to use some such general title for the designation of certain cases which are of extreme interest and import- ance, but the true pathology of which we have yet to learn.” Since the first example, which was published in the e Transactions of the Clinical Society ’ in 1874, I have met with * ‘ Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Nervous System,’ p. 301.