PATHOLOGIC ANATOMY OF HUMAN NERVOUS SYSTEM IN AVITAMINOSIS

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Abstract
Consequent to a low economic status and inadequate hygienic precaution, China has a high morbidity rate of dysentery, tuberculosis and malnutrition. There have been a number of clinical reports from China (Keefer and Yang,1Keefer, Huang and Yang,2Yang and Hu,3Keefer,4Keefer, Huang and Yang,5Alexander and Wu6and Yang and Huang7) on the nervous disorders associated with these diseases, but corresponding neuropathologic descriptions are scanty (Alexander and Wu8). In view of this, I present the following series of cases representing a group of Chinese soldiers who died in a poorly equipped Red Cross base hospital in Peiping, China, of dysentery, intestinal tuberculosis or malnutrition. Postmortem examination in these cases revealed an extraordinarily striking and uniform picture, particularly a widespread degenerative process in the nervous system. My intention in reporting these cases is not only to verify the common clinical impression