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.
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![manner the iriost jiereniptory tliat it is but a branch of the samr pathologic family. Page 469 Marc6 says: Among the predisjjosiiig causes hereditary influence plays a grand role ; and Calmiel is perhaps yet under the true estimate in saying that we encounter it in a third of the, cases. Insanity and general, paralysis are two branches of the same family, for among the: rcjlatives of para- lytics we encounter indiscriminately not only paralytics, but maniacs, melancholies or epileptics, who succeed one generation to another transmitting tendencies to the ridentical root, or con- dition of disease; it is curious nevertheless to see these dis- positions translated in one by simple neurosps, in others by a. constant organic lesion of the: nervous system. Dagonet, i/m^e cZes maladiefs 'inentcdes, 4^8, says : Hereditr seems to play an important ])art in the production of this afflic- tion, and it is not rare to encounter in the relatives of those who are attacked individuals who have been attacked with gen- eral paralysis, indivichials who have been aifected with apoplexy, demency, divei'se forms of insanity, epilepsy, &c. This disease is much more frequent with men than women—and rarely shows itself before the age of thirty. Luy's, Z)c.s Maladies Hereditaires, 6Q, Art. xii, general paralysis: To speak of the hereditary influence of insanity is to speak in many cases of inherited general paralysis, since the greater part of the time the first phases of tliis terrible disease are indicated but by de- lirious conceptions of a special nature. Lucas, TraHc philu- ■soj^hique et Fhymologiquc del' Hercdiie^^^aturclk, Tome ii, 786, says: But it seems above all to be hereditary in the highest degree (/. e. insanity), in demency complicated with paralysis-- A notable part of the observations of Bayle, gathered under the name of meningite ehronlque, and where hcreditaiy influenox- has been proved, present demency both with' the ^iscendants and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22279167_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
