Word: ambulatoria
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...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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