tabes
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It may result also from the pressure of an abscess or an aneurysm either inside the pelvis or in the buttock, and is sometimes associated with disease of the spinal medulla, such as tabes.
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
In tabes dorsalis faradic treatment will often diminish the anaesthesia and numbness in the legs, with resulting benefit to the ataxy.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
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 James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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
