Excerpt from The Dublin Journal of Medical Science, Vol. 91: January to June, 1891 I wish rather to bring under the notice of the Academy some examples of the chronic or subacute disease which I have referred to as that which attacks the nerves of the extremities - either the feet and legs, or the hands and forearms, or both the upper and lower extremities together, with a remarkable symmetry, and of which the involvement of the sensory, vasomotor, and secretory nerves form a most prominent and distinguishing feature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.