Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-g4j75 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-02-11T09:19:38.940Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Two Cases illustrative of two distinct forms of Mania, with general Paralysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Kenneth McLeod*
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh, and Durham County Asylum, Sedgefield
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

My Dear Dr. Laycock,—I am sorry that owing to constant occupation of my time by asylum engagements, I have not been able sooner to forward the cases of which I promised you a detailed history. This I have been at some pains in ascertaining as accurately as possible, and regret that I have not been able to put my materials into a more polished form. Both of them seem to be very typical examples of the forms of general paralysis which you differentiate, namely, the alcoholic and diathetic. Each affords a most perfect example of the sequence by which, from a perfect arthritic health, and sound arthritic modes of psychological manifestation, the invasion of paralysis gradually proceeded to sap and extinguish life.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1862 
Submit a response

eLetters

No eLetters have been published for this article.