Abstract
Man, aged 37, exposed to severe cold on March 22. Great pain in the back from March 24 to April 11. Retention of urine on April 11, and raoid loss of power in the legs two days later. Complete flaccid paraplegia with sensory paralysis and loss of knee-jerks. Unexpected death from cardiac failure on the eighteenth day of the disease. Suppurative external meningitis in the dorsal region. Intense and mostly patchy myelitis from D 3 to L 3. Pus in the muscles of the back. A small localised empyema. No vertebral disease.
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