Lead poisoning in its acute and chronic forms : the Goulstonian lectures, delivered in the Royal College of Physicians, March 1891 / by Thomas Oliver.

Date:: 1891

Credit: Lead poisoning in its acute and chronic forms : the Goulstonian lectures, delivered in the Royal College of Physicians, March 1891 / by Thomas Oliver. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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$loss OF MEMORY. 8r Clark, in the Journal of Mental Science, October 1883, reports a similar case, but with an alcoholic as well as with a saturnine history, in which partial recovery took place. In one of my own cases, there was a striking loss of memory, a circumstance which has also been noticed by Dr Campbell Clark in one of his cases. ]\Iy patient, a man aged 25, was admitted after having colic and a few epileptiform convulsions; there was no albumen in the urine; he had well marked blue line on his gums, but there was neither paralysis, anaesthesia, nor hypertesthesia: his knee jerks were diminished. Several days after he had recovered from the convulsions, he was unable to tell me what his occupation was, nor could he name the factory in which he was employed. On mentioning to him, however, a list of the factories in Newcastle, he was able to fix upon his own. As regards the name of thJ street he lived in, and the part of the town in which the street lay, he was equally unable to express himself. He was quite conscious of tins defect in his memory, and always asked for time to consider tlie questions before replying to them. He regained his memory. F$