It is interesting that the idea of cooking human beings occurs very clearly in a well analyzed case of dementia precox.
At the time of its birth Maria was out of her mind, and continued in a state of dementia for nearly ten days.
This dementia progresses until finally there is a state of almost complete obliteration of the mental faculties.
Fortunately, after a time, in many of these cases, a state of dementia sets in, and then the patients become mild-mannered imbeciles whom it is not at all difficult to manage.
In a certain number of cases, after the period of excitement disappears, a certain amount of dementia is noticed.
It may be questioned whether we are not dealing here with a case of dementia præcox, rather than with the true Gilles de la Tourette's disease; at any rate, tic may be a concomitant of grievous mental affections.
I have seen the catatonia of dementia præcox disappear spontaneously, in spite of its intensity and the unfavourable outlook prophesied by all who had seen the case.
When this is so, we obtain those definite symptoms of slowly advancing dementia commencing in late middle life and ending in complete dementia before the usual period for the appearance of senile dementia.
The two conditions of senile and presenile dementia cannot therefore be separated scientifically.
These patients, in course of time, become delusional, enfeebled and childish, and in some cases the enfeeblement ends in complete dementia of a very degraded type.
Added to senile dementia there is often found a condition of mania or melancholia or even of systematized delusional insanity.
General Paralysis, dementia paralytica, progressive dementia) is a disease characterized by symptoms of progressive degeneration of the central nervous system, more particularly of the motor centres.
In some cases it lasts for weeks, in others for months or years, and may be the terminal stage of the disease, the patient gradually sinking into dementia or making a recovery.
Every type of madness may there be studied, from dementia and melancholia to mania.
The latter, in particular, gave directions of great minuteness as to the temperature and furniture of the rooms, the arrangements of the bed, the physical and mental exercises to which the patients afflicted with dementia were to be subjected.
The same acceleration of ideation is found in certain forms of dementia and in secondary psychical enfeeblement, “with activity produced by hallucinations.
From all that is said in the piece the disease inherited by Oswald from his father can only be diagnosed either as syphilis hereditaria tarda, or dementia paralytica.
But together with these exact, though subordinate, features there appear others infinitely more important, which wholly preclude the diagnosis of dementia paralytica.
The fury of the Revolution, which turned to frenzy and dementia at Nantes, blazed into a marvellous flame of patriotic energy on the frontiers.
That was the spirit now entering the Revolution, the fury of destruction, the dementia of suspicion, the reign of terror.
Re dementia praecox, Lépine states that in the French army instances of dementia praecox have been numerous in the interior, both at the time of mobilization and at the time of calling out sundry new classes.
According to Weygandt, the case is one suggestive of dementia praecox, but very possibly should be regarded as one of psychoneurosis.
The cases of congenital diathesis were somewhat difficult to diagnose, since but 44 of these were clearly psychopathic and in the remainder the question of dementia praecox or of cyclothymic conditions arose.
Soukhanoff found frequent instances of schizophrenia, wherein the melancholia tends to conceal the actual dementia praecox.
I am afraid the doctor would never consent to my going--in fact, I am sure that he would not.
They were Celts, Catholics, and men of the tenant class to a man; and their whole experience of the British Government had been an inexorable landlord, and a constabulary who seemed to them to be always on the side of the rent-collector.
In a siege of dementia praecox, Nebuchadnezzar ate grass like oxen and his body was wet with the dew from heaven; his hair grew like eagle's feathers and his nails like birds' claws.
There is a striking slowness of thought and of movement; the memory fails, and conditions leading to incipient dementia intervene.
De la Fontaine has mentioned this fact, and there is a case in this country in which acute dementia from masturbation was cured by infibulation.
His writings while in France were like those of a man who is dominated by a dementia following a protracted delirium, and as he emerged from this dementia he published a pietistic piece called "The Contemplation of Death.
Absolute dementia may not be the result for some years, but there will be occasional and painful indications of the end for a long space before it arrives.
What is more, I know enough about melancholia to know that it does not drift into dementia until middle age at least.
The continued abuse of alcohol ends at last in complete dementia or general pseudo-paralysis.
In progressive general paralysis and some forms of dementia shakiness is so excessive that it becomes dysgraphy, with zigzag letters.
Dementia causes general cerebral irritation, which frequently results in murder and violence.
In general paralysis of the insane and in senile dementia the blood vessels are always diseased.
They attributed a certain sacred character to these vagaries, like the Orientals who see in dementia a sign of piety.
Research in dementia praecox discloses a symptom and probably a cause of this mental malady to be the withdrawal of the individual from normal social contacts and the substitution of an imaginary for a real world of persons and events.
Dementia praecox has been related by one psychoanalyst to the "shut-in" type of personality.
Indeed if, as the religionists believe, there is a god, he could not have punished his subjects more than by instilling in them the "dementia religiosa.
This is the basis of what the physician recognizes in hysteria, and in the mental disease termed "Dementia Præcox.
Shall we treat them as, for instance, we would those suffering fromdementia precox?
The victim once in its grasp gradually becomes wrecked in mind and body; the muscular twitchings and disorders of movement continually increase and dementia progresses until at last death ensues.
Take the case of the disease known as General Paresis, officially called Dementia Paralytica.
He was cross and contrary, he had no interest in people or in things, he acted very much as do those patients in an insane hospital who suffer from Dementia Praecox.
Indeed, had a psychiatrist examined him at this time, there is no doubt he would have diagnosed his condition as a beginning Dementia Precox.
In some mental diseases the central disturbance is in the will, as Kraepelin postulates in the disease known as Dementia Praecox.
According to some psychiatrists this kind of training breeds the mental disease known as Dementia Praecox, but I seriously doubt it.
At Genoa, a dementia patient carved pipes out of coal.
Mignoni, the celebrated painter of Reggio, who became an inmate of the asylum at that town on account of dementia and megalomania, remained idle there for fourteen years.
Jacoby has shown that unlimited power hastens degeneration, and tends to produce megalomania and dementia in those who possess it.
This is the case with monomaniacs; in cases of dementia and acute mania there prevails a chaotic confusion, which, however, does not always imply absence of taste.
These traits explain the instances of partial perfection to be found in dementia patients; for a repetition of the same movement tends to bring it nearer and nearer to perfection.
Before falling into dementia he committed impulsive acts; for instance, he threw pots from his house against shop windows for the pleasure of hearing them break.
This is a singular proportion or disproportion in a population among which the aged who supply so large a number of cases of senile dementia are numerous, but where alcoholism is rare.
Other dementiapatients would play the same piece, sometimes even a few phrases, over and over again.
Meningitis, encephalitis, and myelitis, senile dementia and softening, have it as a symptom at some time or other.
