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On the Pathological Elements of General Paresis or Paresifying Mental Disease (Paralysie générale)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

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General paresis, paresifying mental Disease, or in Latin paresis generalis, that is, paresis of mind and body, insania paresans, are terms applied to the form of mental disease generally known under the French denomination of paralysie générale.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1862 

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“Paralysie générale” is a singularly inappropriate term; for he who is generally paralysed is certainly dead, and not living.Google Scholar

παρεσις,=paralysia incompleta, imperfecta.Google Scholar

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The representations of relatives against his irregular and whimsical mode of life have not the slightest effect (“l'apathie raisonnée”).Google Scholar

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The paretic symptoms in the first stage are only a bodily expression of the incipient paralysis of mind. The energy of the patient's movements is relaxed. The cause is central. Cf. Gehirnlähmung.Google Scholar

All these signs are of importance, only by comparison with the practice in the use of his muscles which the patient liad before his illness.Google Scholar

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When the patient has died in the beginning of the fourth stage, the cortical substance may appear resistant, and normal to the touch. The most superficial layer must in that case be removed, before the dissolved state of the subjacent tissue can be observed (17).Google Scholar

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