The probable limitation of the distinctive phenomenon of locomotor ataxy (the want of co-ordinating motor power) to the lower extremities.
The pains of locomotor ataxy are early phenomena in most cases, and they are usually present, more or less, throughout the course of the disease.
Locomotor ataxy is a disease affecting chiefly the male sex, and occurring in the immense majority of cases between the thirty-fifth and the fiftieth year.
The effect of treatment, or rather its want of effect, usually affords powerful assistance in distinguishing the pains of locomotor ataxy from those of true neuralgia.
The prominent place which quasi-neuralgic pains hold in the earlier history of locomotor ataxyis a fact that cannot but engage attention.
These stages of acute inflammation are followed in a few years by sclerosis (hardening) of nerve matter and blood vessels, resulting in paresis, locomotor ataxy or paralysis agitans.
Paresis, locomotor ataxy and paralysis agitans are not, as is usually assumed, due to secondary and tertiary syphilis, but to the mercury administered for the cure of luetic and other diseases.
The identity of the ataxy of spinal disease with healthy infantine ataxy is so complete, that Dr.
But ataxy precisely is a serious disease when it appears in adults, as the chief symptom of inflammation of the spinal cord.
Civilization may be to man as the microbe to the locomotor-ataxy subject; but innate civilizationists would delight in the surrender of humanity to the social order.
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