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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    great difficulty was experienced in confining him in a cabin. When shut up he proceeded to smash everything in sight, and, tearing the metal stoppers of the wash-basins from their fastenings, endea- voured to break the glass of the porthole. As this was too much of a good thing, and might lead to flooding the cabin and the saloon, I put the hand- cuffs on and fixed him to a bedpost until he was exhausted and rendered quiet by drugs. He never forgave me for handcuffing a magistrate, but he had to remain shut up until his arrival at Ply- mouth ; and on going to London was pronounced by Sir William Gowers to be in the first stage of general paralysis. A curious feature in connection with this form of insanity is the addiction to kleptomania ; and the pocket of a general paralytic may resemble a magpie’s nest, containing pickings of all sorts from everybody—pencils, pipes, hand- kerchiefs, ties, pieces of paper, in fact anything that can be appropriated and put away quietly. Under the heading of Syphilitic Insanity, in his clinical lectures. Dr Clouston gives the following example:—“ H. R., when a student, was infected with syphilis which ran a bad course, and many of its effects never left him. He entered the Church, married, and procreated several unhealthy