Tabes dorsalis is a late expression of untreated syphilis and is characterized by a triad of clinical symptoms namely gait unsteadiness, lightning pains and urinary incontinence. It occurs due to a ...

THE morphine alkaloids have had little success in controlling posterior-root pains in tabes dorsalis. Because of this a case in which a tabetic patient was relieved by intravenous administration of ...

Tabes dorsalis is characterized by a slow degeneration of the nerve cells and nerve fibres that carry sensory information to the brain. These degenerating nerves are located in the dorsal columns of ...

Based on: On Tabes Dorsalis. The Lumleian Lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians, London, March, 1906. By David Ferrier, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S. 8vo ...