Sexual disease and its medical prevention / by H.N. Robson.

  • Robson, H. N.
Date:
1911
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    tacked his mother, and smashed the door of a neighbour’s house with a poker, and when taken to the station had a partial paralysis. He was for ten years in a private asylum at Musselburgh, and was then taken to Morningside, suffering from delusions and so forth. In three years his delu- sions were worse; he seemed to have a slight difficulty of speech, and he imagined a woman had located herself in his mouth, and was the cause of this, as well as of a bitter taste in his mouth. He died after being in the asylum for twenty-six years.” He also mentions two cases of general paralysis at ages from twelve to twenty, and two others, “ in both of whom the first symptoms of this disease had shown themselves at fifteen, and in both followed a typical course till they died ; the one at the age of seventeen and the other at twenty. Both were girls who had never menstruated, and were undeveloped and girlish in form and appear- ance. Both had a neurotic heredity, and both had hereditary syphilis.” Dr Mott, of the Claybury Asylum, quotes the following interesting case of juvenile general par- alysis :—“ A boy, aged sixteen, of the better class died in an asylum ; at the autopsy no sign of con- genital syphilis was found on the body, but the