Remarks on twenty-eight cases of adult female general paralysis admitted to the Royal Edinburgh Asylum during the five years 1889 to 1893

Abstract

It is proposed in this paper to consider the cases of General Paralysis in adult women admitted to the' Royal Edinburgh Asylum during the five years 1889 to 1893, and to make some general remarks on the subject.The interest of General Paralysis, the most well defined of all the nervous diseases classed together under the name Insanity, is so great from its etiology, from its clinical aspect and from its pathology- that no excuse is needed for examining as carefully as possible the female cases coming under observation in an Asylum during the space of five years.Some of the subjects touched on such as the re-nti> lationship of Syphilis to General Paralysis, are very wide indeed and would if treated properly, need a paper devoted entirely to them.