P. L. Ladame. Tassel dorsalis caused by trauma. Le tabes trammathique, —Encephale. 1910, № 3

A 52-year-old man, shortly after a railway accident, during which he did not receive serious injuries, but got off with a fright, developed symptoms of traumatic neurasthenia, which did not disappear for several years; a few months after this collapse, signs of the incipient tabes dorsalis (tabes fruste) were ascertained; there is no definite indication of lues in the anamnesis. Analyzing the case cited and comparing it with those previously published, Ladame comes to the conclusion that in the present case the development of tabes dorsalis accidentally coincided with the moments of the catastrophe; the existence of tabes dorsalis caused by trauma without previous infection with syphilis remains unproven by anyone, and the very possibility of such a development of the disease, on the basis of pathological and experimental data, must be considered unlikely.