International Clinics, Vol. 2

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Excerpt from International Clinics, Vol. 2: A Quarterly of Illustrated Clinical Lectures and Especially Prepared Original Articles, Twenty-Fifth Series, 1915The trend of modern medicine is to utilize every available means for clearing up the Obscure conditions which baf¿e the diagnostic skill of the physician. Our attention is now being directed to the examination of the cerebrospinal ¿uid. The value of this examina tion as a differential diagnostic agent in many Obscure neurologic and psychologic disturbances is steadily growing in importance.N 0 direct analysis can be made in nervous and mental diseases, so our efforts must be expended in searching the secretions of the body for evidences of the products which attend pathologic alterations of the nervous tissue, particularly the brain. Our first efforts re sulted in failure, because the search was made of the blood, urine, and faeces, which represent the sum total of all of the metabolic products of the body. Nervous tissue comprises only about two per cent. Of the total body, hence one can readily understand why such a small amount of products escapes detection. Examination of the cerebrospinal ¿uid has been more promising, and at the present time this examination is considered necessary as an aid in diagnosis in all Obscure nervous conditions. The cerebrospinal ¿uid comes into more intimate relation with nervous tissue than the other secretions, so should contain the products of metabolism of nervous tissue in more concentrated and in least altered form.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.