General Paralysis of the Insane

General paralysis of the insane with gumma of skull.

Morbidity arising from syphilitic infection in westem countries has progressively declined (Moore, 1951), although there have been reports suggesting that syphilis, especially general paralysis of the insane (GPI), may be increasing again (Steel, 1960; Gooddy, Gautier-Smith, and Dunkley, 1960; Bockner and Coltart, 1961; Brit. med. J7., 1965). The recent publications are mostly reports of isolat...

The most deadly disease of asylumdom: general paralysis of the insane and Scottish psychiatry, c.1840-1940.

General paralysis of the insane (GPI) was one of the most devastating diseases observed in British psychiatry during the century after 1840, in terms of the high number and type of patients diagnosed, the severity of its symptoms and, above all, its utterly hopeless prognosis. With particular reference to the physicians and patients of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum, this article explores the diagn...

The bones of the insane

This article examines alienist explanations for fracture among British asylum patients in the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. A series of deaths in asylums came to light in the 1870s which, in placing the blame for such incidents on asylum staff, called for a response from the psychiatric profession. This response drew upon other medical fields and employed novel pathological tech...

Observations Bearing upon the Question of the Pathogenesis of General Paralysis of the Insane

General paralysis of the insane.

The Dement in the Community

Is. 6d. This is a unique report of a continuous period of after carc given to cases of general paralysis of the insane treated at the Mott Clinic. It makes a notable contribution to social case-work 72