On the question of the effect of typhoid fever on the nervous system.

Typhoid fever, affecting the nervous system, can give an extremely diverse clinical picture, depending on the place and method of its impact. In this respect, among other infectious diseases, it is closest to the syphilitic infection. Like syphilis, typhoid poison affects all tissues entering the nervous system; with it, peripheral nerves, membranes of the brain and spinal cord, blood vessels and medulla can get sick. But besides the similarity in the diversity of clinical symptoms, typhoid fever in some cases resembles syphilis also in the remarkable selectivity of the action of the poison on the nervous system: despite the general intoxication, for some reason certain parts of the nervous system are sometimes involved in the process, certain parts of them are affected.