Quotation from: Manual of Surgery

Written by: Alexander Miles and Alexis Thomson


In the _Brain_, in the later periods of secondary and in tertiary
syphilis, changes occur as a result of the narrowing of the lumen of the
arteries, or of their complete obliteration by thrombosis. By
interfering with the nutrition of those parts of the brain supplied by
the affected arteries, these lesions give rise to clinical features of
which severe headache and paralysis are the most prominent.


Affections of the _Spinal Cord_ are extremely rare, but paraplegia from
myelitis has been observed.

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