Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Brain, 1918, Vol. 41: A Journal of Neurology
These two types of infection, lymphogenous and haematogenous, are thus easily distinguished from each other. The former always gives rise to an inflammatory lesion which in both the peripheral nerves and in the central nervous system Spreads by direct continuity. But the haematogenous lesions are much more difficult to explain, as the consideration of their anatomical distribution in the spinal cord and brain indicates very clearly that in addition to toxicity of the blood stream there is another factor in play which determines where the toxin shall exhibit its primary effect.
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