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The Spastic and Tabetic Types of General Paralysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

R. S. Stewart*
Affiliation:
County Asylum, Bridgend, Glamorganshire

Extract

As a rule general paralysis is characterized by well-defined spinal symptoms and pathological changes, and, looked at from this point of view, the cases which pursue what may be called a normal course group themselves broadly into two fairly-defined but unequal divisions, presenting more or less distinctive features as regards onset, course, duration, and pathology. The type which is associated with locomotor ataxia is a well-recognized one, and it appears to me that in all the other cases the features which predominate during the progress of the affection indicate a correspondingly close relationship, clinically and pathologically, with that variety of spinal disease termed primary spastic paraplegia. In a small proportion the features are indicative of a combination of these two types, but it will be found that primarily such cases belong to one or other group, the combination of symptoms being of relatively late occurrence.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1895

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Footnotes

Paper read at Bristol Meeting of the British Medical Associat., July, 1894 (Psychology Section).

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“Text Book of Mental Diseases.”Google Scholar

§ “Archives de Neurologie,” May, 1891.Google Scholar

“La Semaine Médicale,” March 30th, 1894.Google Scholar

“Diseases of the Nervous System,” Vol. 2., p. 330.Google Scholar

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