Diseases of the nervous system - a text-book of neurology and psychiatry (1915) (14780528854)

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Title: Diseases of the nervous system : a text-book of neurology and psychiatry
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Jelliffe, Smith Ely, 1866-1945 White, William A. (William Alanson), 1870-1937
Subjects: Mental Disorders Nervous System Diseases
Publisher: Philadelphia : Lea & Febiger
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons



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Fig. 269. Paresis, showing gran-diose tjpe. 546 SYPHILIS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM a Bellevue patient. The children are more numerous and morebeautiful than any promised to the ancient Hebrew heroes. One patient, mentioned by Kraepelin, could lift ten elephants, wastwo hundred years old, 9 feet tall, was a beautiful Adonis, weighedfour hundred pounds, had an iron chest, an arm of silver, a head ofgold, 100 wives, 1000 million boys and girls, his urine was Rhine wine,and his feces were gold.
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Fig. 270.—Excited paretic. (Kraepelin.) The illustrations might be repeated ad infinitum. They are to befound in richer or poorer elaboration, in shorter or longer intervals ofexcitement, in this exalted euphoric type, but one may see a hundredparetics, as a general practitioner may see them, in the early stages,and never get a ghost of an idea of such experiences. Of this 100,sometime, sooner or later, 25 to 30 of them will be liable to exhibitthe exalted, euphoric, megalomanic picture here indicated ratherthan described. PARESIS—FORMS 547 Consciousness is usually much clouded in this type, especially whilethe delusional projections are in their full growth. Time, place, thegreat world, is a dreamy, far-off world of little moment to the mindengaged in its ambitious program. Continuity of thought is practi-cally impossible, and chaos and anarchy exist. In such minds hallu-cinations are frequent. The mood is happy, overflowing with schemes for good deeds andgenerosity, and all-embr