SENILE INSANITY.—HYPOCHONDRIASIS

Senile scleral plaques and senile scleromalacia.

A case of senile scleral plaques is reported in which expulsion of a calcified plaque anterior to the insertion of the medial horizontal rectus muscle gave rise to senile scleromalacia. Histopathological examination revealed a second calcified plaque at the site of the contralateral senile scleral plaque in this eye. This case indicates that senile scleromalacia is a scleral disease sui generis...

Senile Endometritis

Senile Cataract

course of the illness varied markedly; two cases ended on the sixth day of disease and one still survives at the thirty-seventh day now. In the intermediate examples the outstanding and most tantalising feature is the tendency to periods of remission; in one case the fluid had become practically normal only to revert to its former turbidity later. rreatment in our hands has been manifestly unsu...

Senile Gangrene : Amputation : Recovery

Senile Mumps With Suppuration

MUMPS in the aged is a rarity, and so is parotid suppuration in this condition at any time. The two patients about to be described were old women occupying beds which faced each other at the end of a long ward. One case became evident six days after the other. They were nursed in the same ward behind screens, and there were no other cases among the other occupants of the room, all of whom were ...