tabes

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We cannot cure the tabes of the spinal cord.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

Muscle Training.—It is this power of training to enable us to appreciate minute sensations that forms the basis of the Frenkel treatment of tabes.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

It must be used with great care not to exhaust the patient, but this is true also in tabes.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

It is called, in the language of physicians, tabes dorsalis, or dorsal consumption; because it is supposed to arise from the dorsal portion of the spinal marrow.

From The Young Man's Guide by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

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 Thomson, Alexis