Word: ambulatoria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operations in one day) he faithfully jotted down his scientific observations. He also found time to keep a detailed journal. As remarkable for its restraint as for its scientific and military detail, the journal tells in vivid doctor's language of Dr. Cushing's siege of Polyneuritis ambulatoria, a crippling inflammation of nerve trunks, which caused the muscles in his soles and palms to waste away. After the Armistice, Dr. Cushing regained control of his hands, but for many years he limped. He is now completely recovered...
...diaries, they will find From a Surgeon's Journal poor history, for it reveals too little about that medically significant author's own activities. One unconnected series of jottings, however, is interesting to historian, layman and doctor. That is Dr. Cushing's record of how polyneuritis ambulatoria crept upon him and crippled him be fore he, a nerve specialist, realized what was occurring. The disease frequently is the sequel of some infection like scarlet fever or influenza. Nerves become inflamed, the inflammation progressing along nerve trunks and branches and indirectly causing muscles to waste away...
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