tabes

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A combination of tabes with lateral sclerosis, or with general paralysis of the insane, is sometimes seen, but needs no special consideration.

From Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria by Mitchell, John K.

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 Thomson, Basil

We cannot cure the tabes of the spinal cord.

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

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

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)