paralytica

As this and similar methods of treatment did not yield satisfactory results, he turned in 1917 to malaria inoculation, which proved to be very successful in the case of dementia paralytica.

Julius Wagner-Jauregg - Biography 1965

In other words, of the admission of syphilitics 82 out of every 100 cases were dementia paralytica.

Venereal Diseases in New Zealand (1922) Report of the Special Committee of the Board of Health appointed by the Hon. Minister of Health New Zealand. Committee of the Board of Health

The introduction of the Wassermann test and treatment by salvarsan or other arsenical preparations will vitiate this index in future, for the reasons that by the Wassermann test more cases will be diagnosed, and by the use of recent remedies the complete cure of many more cases will be effected, and consequently fewer will develop dementia paralytica.

Venereal Diseases in New Zealand (1922) Report of the Special Committee of the Board of Health appointed by the Hon. Minister of Health New Zealand. Committee of the Board of Health

The percentage of syphilitic admissions of all types was 4.74, while the percentage of cases of dementia paralytica was 3.89.

Venereal Diseases in New Zealand (1922) Report of the Special Committee of the Board of Health appointed by the Hon. Minister of Health New Zealand. Committee of the Board of Health

Working on what is known as Fournier's Index -- the relation of the number of cases of dementia paralytica existing at any one time to the number of concurrent syphilitic infectious -- he computes the number of persons in New Zealand now who have or have had syphilis to be 33,000, or 1 to every 38 of the population.

Venereal Diseases in New Zealand (1922) Report of the Special Committee of the Board of Health appointed by the Hon. Minister of Health New Zealand. Committee of the Board of Health

The average yearly number of deaths from dementia paralytica according to the Government Statistician's returns between 1908 and 1921 was just under 40.

Venereal Diseases in New Zealand (1922) Report of the Special Committee of the Board of Health appointed by the Hon. Minister of Health New Zealand. Committee of the Board of Health

If Fournier's estimate that 3 per cent. of syphilitics ultimately develop dementia paralytica be accepted, one would arrive at the annual infection by multiplying 40 by 33, which gives 1,320.

Venereal Diseases in New Zealand (1922) Report of the Special Committee of the Board of Health appointed by the Hon. Minister of Health New Zealand. Committee of the Board of Health

The method of investigation adopted by Dr. Hay is based on Fournier's estimate that 3 per cent. of the cases of syphilis existing at any one time will ultimately develop dementia paralytica.

Venereal Diseases in New Zealand (1922) Report of the Special Committee of the Board of Health appointed by the Hon. Minister of Health New Zealand. Committee of the Board of Health

Hither, a paralytic nun (_sanctimonialis quædam paralytica_) of the name of Ruodlang was brought, in a car, by her friends and relatives from a monastery a league off.

Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

Hither, a paralytic nun (_sanctimonialis quædam paralytica_) of the name of Ruodlang was brought, in a car, by her friends and relatives from a monastery a league off.

Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860