So much doubt still exists as to what are the characteristic pathological appearances of inflammation of the spinal cord, and so many diverse conditions have been described as such which no doubt owed their origin to entirely different pathological processes, that, as yet, we may be said to possess no literature which can form a guide in telling us whether this or that condition is an inflammatory affection, and which clearly differentiates this from the many other pathological changes to which the spinal cord and all nervous tissues are liable.

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