On the question of pathoanatomical changes in the nervous system in tabes of the spinal cord

In my work - Die Abbauerscheinungen bei Tabes dorsalis - I showed that cases of tabes of the spinal cord, by the nature of the destruction processes occurring in the cerebrospinal axis, can be divided into two categories. The first group should include cases where the processes of destruction are of the purely ectodermal type (according to Schröder’y), that is, when the main role in the processes of destruction of the nervous tissue is taken on by the resulting removal of glucose cells, i.e. the name. granular clumps (Körnchenzellen, Gitterzellen). The second group should include the cases where the processes of destruction proceed according to the type of the so-called. amoeboid cells, that is, when the predominant participation in the processes of destruction of nervous tissue falls on the amoeboid cells formed from the preexisting glucose cells described by Alzheimer.