1. His name became associated with pleural effusion and with tabes dorsalis. 2. He is also credited for providing an early description of tabes dorsalis. 3. Tabes is an old medical term that means wasting.4. In 1904 he obtained his doctorate with a dissertation on eye changes associated with tabes dorsalis. 5. He completed his doctorate on the subject of " tabes dorsalis " in 1885. 6. Meningovascular syphilis typically presents with apathy and seizure, and general paresis with dementia and tabes dorsalis. 7. He was the son of Eelke Tabes Hinxt, a merchant captain from the city of Dokkum. 8. Tired wikipedia amd medical networks but could only find that " tabes " means gegeneration-i think! 9. He made early observations associated with syphilis to tabes dorsalis ( nerve fiber and nerve cell degeneration ). 10. In his research of tabes dorsalis, he tried to find the link between this condition and syphilis.
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