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VII. SIMILARITIES BETWEEN SOME FORMS OF "ENCEPHALOMYELITIS" AND MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

TRACY J. PUTNAM, M.D.

Arch Neurol Psychiatry. 1936;35(6):1289-1308.

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The suggestion that multiple sclerosis represents a late stage of a process which is recognized in its acute stage as acute "myelitis" or "encephalomyelitis" of certain types dates well back into the last century.¹ The scene of battle has changed somewhat and now centers less about the question whether the lesions of multiple sclerosis are progressive—it appears to be almost universally accepted that they are-than about the more specific point as to whether the disseminated foci of degeneration seen in the group of "demyelinating encephalomyelitides" or encephalomyelopathies most definitely represented by the postvaccinal and postmeasles forms represent an acute form of typical sclerotic plaques. The issue is a difficult one in itself, for it consists in attempting to compare an acute lesion with a chronic one. This difficulty is increased by the fact that several varieties of lesions may often be observed in each case of the same disease. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BOSTON

From the Neurological Unit, Boston City Hospital, and the Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School.

Footnotes
Read before the American College of Physicians, Philadelphia, April 29, 1935.

The expenses of this investigation were defrayed by the Multiple Sclerosis Fund of Harvard University.