General paralysis : a critical review of the literature of the subject, to which is appended an analysis of the case of John S. Blackburn, in which insanity was alleged as a means of defense / by D.A. Morse.
- Morse, D. A. (David Appleton), 1840-1891
- Date:
- [1874]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: General paralysis : a critical review of the literature of the subject, to which is appended an analysis of the case of John S. Blackburn, in which insanity was alleged as a means of defense / by D.A. Morse. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![We shall consider General Paralysis as follows : -1. Name : What shall we call the disease in <iuestion ? II. Age and Sex: With whom mid it^n does it appearV III. Is IT Hereditaky ? . . IV. IseuBATiOK: Probeomic Period ; perversion of moral faculties. V. Diagnosis : ..Course; Duration and Termination; Prog- nosis. •YI. Pathology. i I. Name: What shall we call the disease in question ? We prefer to designate the disease General Paralysis. Writei-s have given.names corresponding to tlieir views of the nature, pathology or particular character of the disease, .as tliey have viewed:it from a physiological or a psychological standpoint. These names are: General Paralysis; Paralysis of the In- sane ; folic paralytique; paralytic demeucy; demiency with pa- ralysis; periencephalite chro.nique diffuse; m^ningite; encepha- : lite diffuse; paralysie progressive ; parajysie musculaire chron- ique; paralysie generale incomplete; meningite chronique avec alienation; meningo-encephalite; General Pabesls. General Paralysis expresses with sufficient accuracy the, na- ture of the disease; if we desire to express the predominant features of the mental phenomena, say general paralysis of ea.;- .parisive, or oi depressive form, as one or the other of these states may predominate; expansive or depressive general ])aralysis; expansive or melancholic general paralysis. II. Age and Sex: With whom and at what age does it oc- mr f AVriters state that general paralysis is observed much .more frequently with men than with women. Esquirol says: insane women ,are rarely paralytic... The insane men and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22279167_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
