Locomotor Ataxia (Tabes Dorsalis)

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Excerpt from Locomotor Ataxia (Tabes Dorsalis): An Introduction to the Study and Treatment of Nervous Diseases, for Students and Practitioners Reflex integration and its disturbance, interruption of sensory and of motor paths, vegetative disorders, and the interaction of the psyche with the sensory, motor, and vegetative nervous systems, all can be presented connectedly and concretely to students through the study of tabes. Indeed, there are few facts in neurology which cannot be demonstrated in tabes, and there are few nervous diseases so amenable to treatment as it is. The physiological and psychological basis of the treatment is obvious, the results seem often miraculous. Students trained in neurology through the teaching of tabes respect the science, value it, and practice it. Hence I explain the physiology and the psychology of function in detail which would be unnecessary, were I writing solely for my present and not also for my future colleagues. I especially emphasize the role of the vegetative nervous system, partly because of our former neglect of it, but mainly because of the superlative importance it has not only in producing the symptoms but likewise in permitting the disease. There is a psychological as well as a physiological element in all symptoms, in all disabilities. Psychological treatment is, therefore, as essential as physiological treatment. In many medical cases psychological treatment is the only treatment necessary, and in some of the others it is the only treatment possible. By those who ordain the medical curriculum, physicians are presumed to be endowed with the art of psychological treatment. We might as well be presumed to inherit the healing touch. Psychotherapy must be taught in the schools or medicine cease to be a legally restricted profession. Upon the reciprocal relations of the mental state and the tabetic symptoms, and upon the interdependence of the symptoms, rests the basis of psychological treatment. Without knowledge of these relations, effective treatment is impossible. Treatment based on these relations does not lead to radical cure, to the removal of lesions. But we can rarely remove nervous lesions, and often it is mainly the mental reaction to lesions which determines the pain or case, the misery or comfort of patients. Psychic treatment counteracts unfavorable mental reactions and thus minimizes the influence of lesions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.