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Fat and Blood

CHAPTER X
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Arsenic, the chloride of gold and sodium, and chloride of aluminium are suggested by various authorities, but they have not been of any value in my hands.

In hopeless cases, where all treatment fails, as will sometimes happen, or in patients in whom the paralytic stage is already far advanced, if other measures are unsuccessful, morphia is left as a forlorn hope, which will at least relieve their pains.
An outline report of several cases of different types and degrees is appended: M.P.of North Carolina, aet.

thirty-seven, general health excellent until syphilis in 1894, was admitted to the Infirmary in 1898.

He had had for two years recurrent attacks of paralysis of the external rectus muscle of the right eye, slight gastric crises, and stabbing pains in the legs; station very poor, but strength unimpaired, and he was able to walk after being a few minutes on his feet; when first rising he was very unsteady.

Knee-jerk lost, no reinforcement.


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