tabes
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More rarely it appears as tabes mesenterica in infants, tubercular peritonitis, and tubercular disease of the internal organs.
From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson
The work of Flexner and Noguchi on paresis and tabes dorsalis show that always in such afflictions the tissues of the central nervous system have been invaded by the parasite.
From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Michael F. Guyer
The wounds heal well, but the victims of tabes are unfavourable subjects for operative interference, on account of their liability to intercurrent complications.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
In para-syphilitic lesions such as general paralysis and tabes a positive reaction is almost always present.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
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 J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
