The diseases of the nervous system / by Hirt Ludwig
New York, [N.Y.]: D. Appleton, 1899
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Preliminares.
Contents. - List of illustrations.
Diseases of the brain and its meninges, including the cranial nerves.
Part I. Diseases of the meninges of the brain.
Chapter II. Inflammations of the soft membranes of the brain, leptomeningitis, purulent meningitis.
Part II. Diseases of the cranial nerves.
Chapter II. Diseases of the optic nerve.
Chapter III. Diseases of the nerves supplying the ocular muscules.
Chapter IV. The diseases of the trigeminal nerve.
Chapter V. Diseases of the facial nerve.
Chapter VI. Diseases of the auditory nerve.
Chapter VII. Diseases of the glosso-pharyngeal nerve.
Chapter VIII. Diseases of the vagus (pneunogastric nerve), "vagus neuroses."
Chapter IX. The diseases of the accessory nerve.
Chapter X. Diseases of the hypoglossal nerve.
Chapter XI. Simultaneous affection of several cranial nerves. - Multiple paralysis of the cranial nerves.
Part III. Diseases of the brain proper.
I. The study of cerebral lesions with reference to their seat. - Topical diagnosis. - Doctrine of localizacion.
II. The study of cerebral lesions with reference to their pathological nature.
Diseases of the spinal cord.
Part I. Diseases of the spinal meninges.
III. Haemorrhage into the spinal membranes. - Meningeal apoplexy. - Pachymeningitis interna haemorrhagica.
Part II. Diseases of the spinal nerves.
I. Diseases of the cervical nerves.
III. Diseases of the lumbar nerves.
IV. Diseases of the sacral and coccygeal nerves.
V. Neuritis involving several spinal nerves at the same time.
B. Diseases of the trophic and vaso-motor nerves.
Part III. Diseases of the substance of the spinal cord.
I. Consideration of spinal diseases with reference to their seat. - Topical diagnosis.
II. Spinal lesions regarded from their pathological aspect. - Pathological diagnosis.
Diseases of the general nervous system.
Parte I. Diseases of the general nervous system without any recognizable anatomical basis.
First group. Neuroses which are wont to run their course without any essential implication of the general organism.
A. Affections in witch the motor nerves are chiefly implicated.
Chapter I. Chorea. - Chorea St. Viti. - St. Vitu's dance. - Ballismus. -
Chapter II. Tetany. - Tetanilla. - Tetanus intermittens.
Chapter III. Paralysis agitans. - Shaking palsy. - Parkinson's disease. - Chorea procursiva.
B. Affections in witch the sensory nerves are chiefly implicated.
C. Affections in witch the tro hic nerves are chiefly implicated.
Chapter I. Neurasthenia. - Nervous prostration.
Chapter II. Hysteria.
Chapter III. Epilepsy. - Falling sickness. - Morbus sacer. - Morbus comitialis.
Chapter IV. Hystero-epilepsy. - Major hysteria. - Hypnotism. - Treatnet by suggestion.
Part II. Diseases of the general nervous system with known anatomical basis.
Chapter II. Tabes dorsalis. - Locomotor ataxia (fosterior spina sclerosis - Leucomyelitis posterior chronica).
Chapter III. Dementia paralytica progressive. - General paralysis of the insane. - General paresis. - Softening of the brain.
Index.