Abstract
The term myelitis generally covers a great variety of spinal cord lesions, such as inflammations, degenerations and necrobiotic changes, caused by thrombosis, embolism and endarteritis. The clinical picture may be identical, and a proper clinical diagnosis of the actual condition, whether inflammatory, or degenerative, cannot always be made. In one of the cases recorded here the morbid phenomena were most probably due to a pure inflammatory condition of the spinal cord, myelitis, while the second case with the clinical picture of transverse myelitis was due to an extensive softening of the spinal cord with interesting histologic features. CLINICAL REPORT (DR. BASSOE) Case 1.—History. —A Chinese laborer, 50 years of age, unmarried, was admitted to the surgical service of Dr. Carl B. Davis in the Presbyterian hospital, April 1, 1920, on account of urinary retention and weakness of the arms and legs. It was quickly determined that no surgical condition was
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