Introduction. The plan of the nervous system in general.

A. - The Peripheral Nerves. Anatomical introduction. 1. Effects of injury and division of nerve stems. 2. Neuritis; (1) Toxic neuritis - (a) from lead or arsenic poisoning; (b) Multiple neuritis. (2) Local neuritis (a) by continuity; (b) leprous; (c) syphilitic. 3. Tumours.

B. - The Spinal Cord and Medulla. Anatomical introduction. I. Secondary Degenerations. - Causation; character of lesions, grey degeneration, sclerosis. Forms - 1. Descending grey degeneration. 2. Ascending grey degeneration. 3. Degeneration after amputations. II. Inflammations. A. Transverse Myelitis. 1. Acute; acute softening. 2. Chronic; chronic compression. 3. Divers' paralysis. B. Systematic Myelitis. General causation. 1. Sclerosis of posterior columns; nature of changes and relation to function. Hereditary ataxia. 2. Spontaneous or primary lateral sclerosis. 3. Postero-lateral sclerosis. 4. Acute ascending paralysis. 5. Poliomyelitis anterior acuta. 6. Poliomyelitis anterior subacuta. 7. Poliomyelitis anterior chronica or progressive muscular atrophy. 8. Bulbar paralysis. 9. Pseudo-bulbar paralysis. 10. Pseudo-hypertrophic paralysis. III. Tumours.