Abstract
Some years agoM. Emile Bergermade a report of a series of researches, in which he had been engaged, in Austria, in regard to the eye trouble caused by tabes dorsalis. These researches were finished in Paris, and on June 4 M. Berger made a second report on the subject, to the Académie des Sciences. This report includes 109 cases, of which 47 were syphilitic, 26 were in the preataxic stage, 50 in the ataxic, and 33 in the paralytic stage. Among the symptoms not hitherto described is diminution of intraocular tension, which was very striking, and was of all degrees up to feeble resistance of the globe. In 2 cases only was there hypertonia, but this was developed before the commencement of the tabes. Of the cases presenting considerable hypotonia, this phenomenon was present on one side only in 2 cases in the preataxic stage, and in 11
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