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Example sentences for "general paralysis"

  • After the injection there was restlessness, and, ultimately, general paralysis of the central nervous system.

  • Curara placed on the skin had no effect, but on the branchiae led to general paralysis.

  • He died of general paralysis, after he had wallowed for months in the lowest depths of insanity.

  • The author here cites all the features in question as characteristic of the first stage of general paralysis: ‘Libidinous talk, unconstraint in intercourse with the opposite sex, plans of marriage.

  • This is not to be confounded with the desire for buying, which possesses those who are in the first stage of general paralysis.

  • General paralysis, or paresis, is a progressive mental degeneration, with relapses and periods of improvement which reduce the patient by successive stages to a jibbering idiocy ending invariably in death.

  • In such a case the secondary stage of the disease may pass with half a dozen red spots on the body and no constitutional symptoms, and the patient go to pieces a few years later with locomotor ataxia or general paralysis of the insane.

  • Five cases of epilepsy, and of insanity, two of general paralysis, one of idiocy and several of microcephaly were observed under these circumstances.

  • In fact, his condition was constantly getting worse; another suicidal attack was followed by that fatal comfort, that pleasant excitement which marks the commencement of general paralysis.

  • Noguchi and Moore have discovered the spirochæte in the brain in a number of cases of general paralysis of the insane.

  • Most importance attaches to the fragility of the bones met with in general paralysis of the insane, locomotor ataxia, and other chronic diseases of the brain and spinal cord.

  • He was placed under restraint, and died of general paralysis.

  • At the commencement of general paralysis there is often violent sexual desire combined with more or less complete impotence.

  • A similar and analogous condition is presented by incidence of general paralysis after a previous syphilitic infection.

  • 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.

  • Loss of memory for recent but not remote events is characteristic of chronic alcoholism and senility and even the early stage of general paralysis.


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