A case of marital dorsal tabes

Abstract

The case histories cited in this report refer to the husband and wife of N.), who have absolutely identical painful symptoms, which developed in both almost simultaneously.

Husband, 58 years old, a mechanic by profession, married for a long time, children are healthy. I drank vodka in moderation. At the end of 1903, i.e., 6 years ago, he contracted syphilis and, upon the onset of secondary phenomena, withstood two courses of mercury rubbing. The following year, he suffered from acute polyarthritis. The real disease came in 1906, i.e., 3 years after infection with syphilis.

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