Handbuch Der Krankheiten Des Nervensystems I (German Edition) - Softcover

Hermann Nothnagel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0371663296 ISBN 13: 9780371663295

Publisher: HardPress, 1875

Synopsis

Handbuch Der Krankheiten Des Nervensystems I by Hermann Nothnagel. This authoritative volume offers a comprehensive, clinically oriented survey of diseases affecting the brain, spinal meninges, and spinal cord. The excerpt focuses on chronic leptomeningitis and tumors of the spinal meninges and outlines an introductory framework for diseases of the spinal cord itself, detailing symptomatology, progression, prognosis, and therapeutic approaches with emphasis on pathological anatomy and differential diagnosis. It presents a two-stage model in which extrinsic irritation or compression of roots and meninges precedes intrinsic spinal involvement and inflammatory myelitis, highlighting the difficulty of precise localization and the need to correlate clinical patterns with anatomic sites. The text fuses anatomy, physiology, and clinical neurology, introducing general and specific disease categories such as spinal anemia, hemorrhages, traumatic lesions, slow compression, spinal irritation, and functional syndromes, and it offers historical and practical guidance on diagnosis, symptomatic treatment, rehabilitation, and complication prevention. It also discusses autopsy findings and incidental anatomical changes as a basis for understanding disease processes.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 1875
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 0371663296
• ISBN 13: 9780371663295
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400