Section Ii. the Systematic Diagnosis of the Forms of Neurosyphilis

CASES 9 TO 38 63

CASE

9. Neurasthenia versus neurosyphilis 63

10. Paretic neurosyphilis versus manic-depressive psychosis 68

11. Neurosyphilis versus manic-depressive psychosis 71

12. Dementia praecox versus neurosyphilis. Autopsy 74

13. Neurosyphilis: negative Wassermann reaction (W. R.) of serum 77

14. Diffuse neurosyphilis: six tests apt to run mild 80

15. Paretic neurosyphilis: six tests strong 85

16. Taboparesis (tabetic neurosyphilis): tests like those of paresis 92

17. Paretic versus diffuse neurosyphilis: confusion re tests 97

18. Vascular neurosyphilis: positive serum, negative fluid W. R. 101

19. Seizures in diffuse neurosyphilis 103

20. Seizures in paretic neurosyphilis 106

21. Aphasia in paretic neurosyphilis 111

22. Aphasia in paretic neurosyphilis 115

23. Remission in paretic neurosyphilis 117

24. Remission in diffuse neurosyphilis 122

25. Paresis sine paresi 126

26. Paretic neurosyphilis. Autopsy 131

27. Gummatous neurosyphilis. Operation 137

28. Extraocular palsy (cranial neurosyphilis) 140

29. Tabes dorsalis (tabetic neurosyphilis): six tests apt to run mild 141

30. Tabetic neurosyphilis, clinically atypical 143

31. Cervical tabes 146

32. Erb’s syphilitic spastic paraplegia 147

33. Syphilitic muscular atrophy 149

34. Neurosyphilis of the secondary period 151

35. Juvenile paretic neurosyphilis: optic atrophy 154

36. Juvenile paretic neurosyphilis 157

37. Simple feeblemindedness, syphilitic 159

38. Juvenile tabes 161