The French novelist Alphonse Daudet kept a journal of the pain he experienced from this condition which was posthumously published as La Doulou (1930) and translated into English as In the Land of Pain (2002) by Julian Barnes.
Bactrocera dorsalis | Cicindela dorsalis | Tabes dorsalis | Peninsular rock agama ''Psammophilus dorsalis |
He received his M.D. in 1910 with a thesis on nerve involvement of tabes which came from work done with Dejerine, Landouzy and Laennec.