What ts the cause of locomotor ataxia?

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Locomotor Ataxia

Q. What ts the cause of locomotor ataxia?

A. The most common cause is syphilis. It is one of the late manifestations of infection of the body with the spirochete, the parasite to which the disease known as syphilis is due. It is barely possible that locomotor ataxia may be due to some other causes, but it is the general belief among physicians that this malady is rare­ly, if ever, attributable to any cause other than syphilitic infection. Syphilitic infection con­tracted in youth is likely to be followed twenty or thirty years later by tabes dorsalis or locomotor ataxia. The infection may be inherited.

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