Presentation of CaseA sixty-nine-year-old jeweler was admitted to the hospital complaining of paralysis of the legs.Six months prior to admission he began to experience pain high in the back, radiating around to the axillas and pectoral regions and severer on the left. Two weeks before entry he began to have numbness of the feet that had gradually extended upward to the legs and abdomen and, several days before entry, weakness, which rapidly progressed to paralysis of the legs. For the past two days he had experienced difficulty in voiding. There had been no headaches, vomiting, speech difficulty, dizziness . . .
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Cabot et al. (1947) studied this question.