ANOMALOUS CASES OF GENERAL PARESIS

Changing Trends in General Paresis

THERE ix much recent medical literature on the subject of syphilis as a 'dying disease.' King (1958), in deploring the conmmonly held view that venereology is in decline as a specialty, suggests that the proportion of late syphilis may well have increased to-day since treatment has become easier to administer, and less systemuatic therapy is given in the early stages. Redmill (1959) emphasizes ...

Prevalence of laryngeal paresis in dogs undergoing general anaesthesia.

OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of laryngeal paresis within a selected population of dogs and identify some of the distinguishing characteristics of affected dogs. DESIGN A prospective study involving laryngoscopic examination of 250 dogs. PROCEDURE The laryngeal movements of 250 dogs undergoing general anaesthesia were observed. The severity of laryngeal paresis in these dogs was grad...

Studies concerning the Psychology and Symptomatology of General Paresis

I . Schilder (655). 2. Schilder’s epistemological stand is indicated here. It is the articulation of the world which is given, not the “categories” of the “pure mind” (Kant). The point is of importance, since modern dynamic psychology has implications suggestive of solipsism. See, for example, Laforgue (441, pp. 57-59). The epistemological paradox of dynamic psychology is: how accoiint for an a...

Gastric, Secretory and Other Crises in General Paresis,

On Some Anomalous Cases of Locomotor Ataxy

Among the large number of cases of locomotor ataxy conforming to the generalised description of the disease as given in textbooks occur some which deviate from this in some way or other?either by the absence of ordinary features or by the presence of rare ones, or by the coexistence of other diseases which modify the usual clinical picture of the disease. Absence of the knee-jerks is an almost ...