Focal symptoms in general paralysis

Abstract

The opening years of the twentieth century have proved to be an exceedingly fruitful period for the study of general paralysis of the insane In the nineteenth century general paralysis was early recognized by the French school to be a more or less independent disease - with a well -defined syrrptomatolegy and characteristic course (Esquirol, Bayle, Calmeìl) . The etiological importance cf syphilis gradually won recognition on statistical grounds; the unsatisfactory nature of this form of proof, however, was sufficiently clear from the extraordinary divergence cf the statistics furnished by the various authors. The pathological anatomy of the disease r °ave rise. to much controversy from an early date.