Neuritis

Neuritis, inflammation of the trunk of a nerve. Multiple neuritis is a disease in which many nerves throughout the body become affected by inflammation. This occurs, for example, after certain cases of diphtheria, in locomotor ataxia, in beri-beri (a malady met with in Japan and other Eastern countries), in leprosy, and in what is known as alcoholic neuritis. The chief symptoms in this last-named disease are paralysis of muscles and sensory irritation, there being usually intense cutaneous hyperesthesia. Alcoholic neuritis is a rare form of malady; it usually occurs in women, and runs, as a rule, a protracted course.