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Some Doubtful Cases of So-Called General Paralysis of the Insane

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

W. Robinson*
Affiliation:
Wakefield Asylum

Extract

Cases of mental disease which give definite mental symptoms and physical signs of the condition recognised and at present called general paralysis of the insane, and which, moreover give a Wassermann reaction, seem to be invariably due to syphilis, and to contain in many cases spirochætes in the cerebral substance. Out of seven such cases of well-marked general paralysis, which on death were examined for spirochætes by Dr. McIntosh, six cases showed the presence of spirochætes. The seventh case was regarded as doubtful.

Type
Clinical Notes and Cases
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1914 

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