The place of magnetic resonance tomography in diagnosis of discogenic cervical myelopathy

The data on complex examination using MRT techniques (T1 and T2 weighted sagittal and cross section tomograms in the tomograph with 0,04 T field strength) for examination of 45 patients suspected in cervical ische mic myelopathy are given. In 27 patients with clinically confirmed diagnosis of myelopathy the compression of spinal marrow was found. MRT is the most informative techique allowing the objective detection of the causes of compressive ischemic myelopathy with cervical loca tion. It is advantageous to use expressed T2 weighted sa gittal tomograms better detecting osteochondrosis and posterior herniae. T1 weighted tomograms are important when determining the direction of disc protruding and the extent of spinal marrow compression.

Experimental and Clinical Investigation of Alcoholism

This memoir is an abstract of lectures delivered by Dr. Magnan in 1869 and 1870. The subjects treated are—1. Alcohol. Its immediate action upon animals. Drunkenness.—2. Prolonged action of alcohol upon animals. Tremor. Delirium. (Never epileptic or epileptiform convulsions).— 3. Immediate action of essence of absinthe upon animals. Absinthic vertigo and epilepsy. Symptoms after removal of the cerebral lobes; symptoms after section of the spinal marrow.—4. Combined action of alcohol and essence of absinthe.—5. Acute alcoholism in man. Delirium tremens. Absinthic epilepsy. Epileptiform and apoplectiform attacks in chronic alcoholism. Prognosis. Treatment.