Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease (Volume 40)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... a yellow background. The fact that Dr. Moore failed to find the organism in his earlier examinations was not surprising; they were found not in the mesoblastic tissues, where he had been especially looking for them, but free in the cortical tissues, and one might search through many sections from various parts of the brain and find none. The results of this work by Drs. Moore and Noguchi, the speaker said, were far-reaching, since they proved (if confirmed--and there was scarcely a doubt that they would be confirmed) what had long been suspected, that the Trefoncma fallidum was the essential causative factor of general paralysis; but this clearing up of the etiology in no way lessened the clinical or anatomical value of the work previously done in connection with this subject. General paralysis would still stand as a distinct variety of cerebral disease, distinct in its anatomical features from other forms, distinct as a clinical group, and distinct in its failure to adequately respond to therapeutic agents and methods heretofore effective in the treatment of.ordinary syphilis. While this was so, the demonstration of the Trefonema rendered the problem of future therapeutic attack much more definite and more hopeful. A CASE FOR DIAGNOSIS By William Steinach, M.D. A man. 69 years old, a native of Germany and a machinist by occupation. He stated that his father, who died at the age of 78 of cardiac disease, had some sort of a tremor. His mother died in childbirth. The patient was the father of eleven children, of whom seven were living, four having died in infancy. One son was a deaf mute, the result of some meningeal trouble following an injury to the head in childhood. Aside from this, there was no history of any nervous or mental disease in the...