Again, the peroneal nerve symptoms were more obstinate and prolonged, and instances of ascending neuritis were more common than in the case of any other nerve of the lower extremity, and the trophic wasting of muscles was more marked.
Thus, I saw several severe cases of musculo-spiral neuritis in men who were wounded during the trying and wet march on Bloemfontein.
In the former case the functional element was strong, but in both an ascending neuritis was probably present.
It was a matter of surprise, considering the frequency with which subsequent neuritis was met with in the nerves generally, that trifacial neuralgia in some form was not more often met with.
The symptoms may subside altogether, or a neuritis may develop, with severe pain shooting up the nerve.
Pressure or traction may be exerted upon a nerve by contracting scar tissue, or a process of neuritis or perineuritis may be induced.
If, however, neuritis supervenes, the electrical reactions are altered, the muscles degenerate, and recovery may be retarded or may fail to take place.
Manson has "known it originate in the port of London in the crews of ships which had been in harbour for several months," and he suggests that when peripheral neuritis occurs in epidemic form it is probably beri-beric.
The symptoms are mainly those of peripheral neuritis with special implication of the phrenic and the pneumogastric nerves.
The typhoid fever and its attendantneuritis are therefore to be interpreted as the liberating factor for a severe hysteria in a subject already disposed to such symptoms through previous accident.
It is the chronic retrobulbar neuritis which is typical of the so-called nitrophenol neuritis, developing in soldiers employed in making explosives.
Neuritis and poliomyelitis producing an Erb’s palsy without any effect upon the electrical reactions is an hypothesis not to be entertained.
Re differential diagnosis between peripheral neuritis and reflex (physiopathic) paralysis, Babinski and Froment offer the following table: Peripheral Neuritis.
On the voyage home, the diagnosis was altered to “multiple neuritisor neurasthenia.
Re genuine polyneuritis, Mann gives German experience regarding neuritis as somewhat frequent and affecting a special form which he terms polyneuritis neurasthenica.
There later developed a slight edematous neuritis of the nerve, corresponding to the evolution of a chronic retrobulbar neuritis of toxic origin.
Horses and animals suffer from neuritis from over-feeding with cereals and beans, and the stockbreeder or horse expert usually restricts these foods and gives plenty of grass, hay, chaff and green clover, which corrects the trouble.
Neuritis is a painful and wearying form of nerve trouble which mostly affects the arms and legs.
Neuritis is a form of rheumatism or gout which involves the nerves.
A friend of mine who is suffering from an attack of neuritis (not badly) is desirous of trying the diet of twice-baked standard bread as recommended by Dr Knaggs in an answer to a query in The Healthy Life some months since.
Rise of temperature, headache, irritability, drowsiness, and optic neuritis may be present.
Optic neuritis and vomiting usually are more severe than in temporo-sphenoidal abscess.
This neuritis may extend from the peripheral (external) nerves and involve the larger nerve trunks or even reach the spinal cord.
Paralysis from arsenic, mercury, zinc or copper:--The symptoms are those of neuritisand are greatly similar in each kind.
If a number of nerves are affected at the same time it is called Multiple Neuritis or Polyneuritis.
This is as a rule a neuritis of the sciatic nerve or of its cords of origin.
In neuritis from alcohol drinking there is a rapid onset as a rule, with delirium and delusions.
This rarely occurs in neuritis from cold, or in that which follows fevers; but it occurs most frequently in neuritis caused by blows, wounds, etc.
Diseases involving the nerves due to extension of inflammation from nearby structures, as in neuritis of the facial nerve due to decay of the temporal bone.
There were two of them, and one was a medicine which the Vicar explained he was to use only if his neuritis grew unendurable.
Wigram did not hesitate now to still the pain of the neuritis which tormented him; and that, with the constant shaking of his palsied limbs, was gradually exhausting him.
An interstitial neuritis may affect the nerve-trunks involved in the fibrous growth.
Although usually monoarticular and of traumatic origin, I have seen it affect first one and then the other shoulder in the absence of any known injury, and beginning like a neuritis or a neuralgia of the scapulo-humeral nerves.
Neuritis and sclerotic lesions of the nerve-centres are not uncommon in the history of acquired and inherited gout.
An arm that has had a lead neuritis will often be uncomfortable in rainy weather for long after and a crutch palsy may, in the same way, leave the arm sensitive.
I know of cases of so-called neuritis that had been very obstinate to treatment that were cured by Eddyite treatment.
Both of these predispose to the development of a low-grade {405} neuritis in susceptible individuals.
Even when there is true sciatica or lumbago, that is, a genuine low-grade neuritis of the lumbar or sciatic nerves, most of the symptoms may come from the associated psychoneurosis.
Of course, a double neuritis may well occur in the same nerve on both sides of the body under certain toxic conditions.
Diabetes may cause double neuritis in any other much used pair of nerves.
Last night he sat there looking like a superannuated cavalry colonel in spectacles, neuritis twitching his entire left side, unable to light his own cigar; and there he sat and rambled on and on about innate purity and American womanhood.
In sober intervals he now had neuritis and a limp to distract his mind; also his former brother-in-law with professions of esteem and respect and a tendency to borrow.
The symptoms then are mainly those of peripheralneuritis with blindness.
The relative degree of neuritis in the two eyes is a reliable guide to the side on which the tumour is situated (Horsley).
With the growth of the tumour the symptoms become aggravated, the optic neuritis is followed by optic atrophy and blindness, the patient gradually becomes stuporous, and finally dies in a state of coma.
In a certain number of cases traumatic neuritishas resulted in serious disability of the limb.
On the last day we played he succeeded in bringing me in two down and I've never seen neuritis dispersed so quickly as it was in his case.
Like all Englishmen, he took a beating gracefully, but gave me to understand that he had been having a good deal of trouble with rheumatism or neuritis in his right elbow.
False or nervous neuritis may feel like real neuritis (the result of poisons in the blood), but it gives itself away when it localizes itself in parts of the body where there is no nerve trunk.
Inflammatory complications, sometimes serious, are not uncommon owing to infection through the ulcer, and an ascending neuritis may even result in myelitis.
In the Argonne battle his neuritis entirely disappeared.
When his neuritis was very bad at one time, he told General Pershing that he did not want to stand in the way of a successor.
Optic neuritis and neuro-retinitis are sometimes found; and we have sometimes optic atrophy.
You have neuritis when you catch cold in the wind, and you know it," he told her.
Alas for the power of elderly ladies to keep off neuritis by defiance!
And if you tell John it's neuritis I shall probably take you over to Phyllis' fountain and drown you the first day I'm up.
He has racking neuritis in his shoulders and back.
Val had a touch of neuritis in his injured arm two nights out of seven, but he could not find the shillings for his train fare to Salisbury, far less the fees of a professional masseuse.
