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  1. Challenges
  2. (I) Multiple sclerosis: Genuine naked-eye identification
    1. (I-1) Pioneering spinal cord findings
    2. (I-2) Detection of distinctive brain lesions
    3. (I-3) Macropathology: Unexploited key evidence
  3. (II) Histological perspectives
    1. (II-1) Tissue changes in specific lesions
    2. (II-2) Histological lesion categorizations
    3. (II-3) “Selective demyelination”: The facts
  4. (III) The neurologist’s standpoint
    1. (III-1) Classical clinical observations
    2. (III-2) CDMS: Chronically delusive misidentification syndrome
  5. (IV) The specter of the multiple sclerosis agent
    1. (IV-1) Lawless or specific pattern(s) of spread?
      1. (IV-1-a) Multiple sclerosis by blood-borne dissemination?
        1. Character of disseminated myelitis
        2. Spinal multiple sclerosis: Simply cryptogenic disseminated myelitis?
        3. Character of disseminated encephalitis
        4. Cryptic disseminated encephalitis versus cerebral multiple sclerosis
        5. Postvaccinal “multiple sclerosis”
        6. Unexplained encephalomyelitis is not specific multiple sclerosis
      2. (IV-1-b) Inflammatory versus specific plaques
      3. (IV-1-c) Injurious inflammation: The cart before the horse
    2. (IV-2) From randomly spread foci to multiple sclerosis-agent
    3. (IV-3) Looking back in frustration
  6. (V) Lesion explanation in physical terms
    1. (V-1) The dynamics of lesion formation
    2. (V-2) Cause of the injurious impulses
    3. (V-3) The key to decoding multiple sclerosis: Specific data
  7. References
  8. Overview of Plates

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