Abstract
Sir Victor Horsley1attributed to Spiller2priority in the recognition of spinal arachnoiditis as a clinical entity. Earlier references to adventitious proliferations of the arachnoid had been noted by Hewett3in 1845 and Coote4in 1850. Later, contributions were made by Oppenheim5and Krause,6and more recently the excellent study by Stookey7was published. Stookey's contribution served to throw valuable additional light on the diagnostic and surgical aspects of this condition. During the past five years there have been reports by various European observers: Faure,8Brouwer,9Schaeffer,10Barre,11Metzger,12Cairns13and others, and the condition has been referred to as circumscribed spinal arachnoiditis, meningitis circumscripta or serosa and adhesive spinal arachnoiditis. In the foregoing communications emphasis had been placed almost exclusively on the type of arachnoiditis that clinically simulates tumor of the spinal cord. The purpose of
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