Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, completed his doctorate on tabes dorsalis in 1885.
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Pilling died of locomotor ataxia, now called Tabes dorsalis, a disease associated with untreated syphilis, in 1895.
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Romberg s sign, once synonymous with tabes dorsalis, became recognised as common to all proprioceptive disorders of the legs.
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He also published significant works on tabes dorsalis, alcoholism, anterior poliomyelitis, syphilis, multiple sclerosis and traumatic neurosis.
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Str�mpell's wide-ranging research involved tabes dorsalis, spinal cord diseases, infantile paralysis, acromegalia, and progressive muscular atrophy.
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Raymond made contributions in research of syringomyelia, neurasthenia, poliomyelitis, tabes dorsalis and diseases of the cauda equina, to name a few.
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Suffering from a painful disease of syphilitic origin, the " tabes dorsalis ", he overcame his physical miseries to concentrate on his work.
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The types of neurosyphilis include asymptomatic, acute syphilitic meningitis, meningovascular syphilis, parenchymatous syphilis ( which includes general paresis and tabes dorsalis ), and optic atrophy.
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His journal entries relating to the pain he experienced from tabes dorsalis are collected in the volume " In the Land of Pain ", translated by Julian Barnes.
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He described what is now universally recognised as " Romberg's sign " in his original account of tabes dorsalis ( a disease caused by syphilis damaging the back of the spinal cord ).
