Sexual disease and its medical prevention / by H.N. Robson.

  • Robson, H. N.
Date:
1911
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Credit: Sexual disease and its medical prevention / by H.N. Robson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to be found in 50 per cent, of the inmates to a greater or lesser extent. Dr Turner, of the asylum at Brentwood, has had a large experience of epileptics for many years, and after most careful pathological research, is of the opinion that the disease may be due to an abnormal tendency of the blood to coagulate; and that this, combined with an unstable nervous system, are the neces- sary factors for inducing this terrible and heart- rending complaint. One may be permitted to suggest that these two defects are the result of some degenerative force, but it is well known that epilepsy is hereditary ; moreover, it is a curious fact, that the manifestations of epilepsy occur most often at the same period of life as the manifesta- tions of congenital syphilis show themselves—that is to say, between birth and twenty years of age. In general paralysis of the insane, now regarded as being usually one of the after effects of syphilis, the patient suffers from fits that are often indis- tinguishable from epileptic fits ; and the succession of fits known as the status epilepticus is more frequently found in general paralytics than in idio- pathic epilepsy, and in this state some of the general paralytics pass away. In children general paralysis is always associated with hereditary D