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Cranial Nerve Palsies As a Manifestation of Peripheral Neuritis in Alcoholic Insanity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

D. J. O'Connell ,
J. McLeman  and
Ruby O. Stern
D. J. O'Connell
Affiliation:
St. Andrew's Hospital, Northampton
J. McLeman
Affiliation:
St. Andrew's Hospital, Northampton
Ruby O. Stern
Affiliation:
Pathologist to the Hospital
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In the literature on neurological complications of alcoholism but scant reference has been made to the occurrence of cranial nerve palsies in alcoholic peripheral neuritis. Although Russell Brain (1) states that there is no form of polyneuritis in which the cranial nerves may not suffer, he refers to the rarity with which they are affected in the alcoholic form, and mentions only the vagus and the facial nerves as being occasionally involved. Collier and Adie (2) in Price's Text-book of Medicine state that facial palsies, ptosis, nystagmus and weakness of the extra-ocular muscles have been observed, whilst Feiling (3) writes in the Oxford Medicine that with the exception of nystagmus, involvement of the cranial nerves is very rare in alcoholic neuritis.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 80 , Issue 328 , January 1934 , pp. 103 - 110
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1934

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