Identifier: mentaldiseaseste00cole (find matches)
Title: Mental diseases. A text-book of psychiatry for medical students and practitioners
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Cole, Robert Henry, 1866-1926
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Publisher: New York, Wood
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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^ in his habits, and incoherent in speech. Hallucina-tions are common. Dementia Paranoides is the term applied to those cases de:mentia precox
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Fig. 39.—Dementia Prcecos (Katatonia). 160 MENTAL DISEASES in which delusions of persecutions are uppermost. The) areoften also exalted in their ideas, and they have marked hallucina-tions which vary from time to time, and correspond with thedelusions. Aural hallucinations are most usual, but all thesenses may be affected. Visual aberration is rare. Manypatients complain of electrical currents affecting them andothers are full of insane suspicions. In the course of time, asthe Dementia increases, mannerisms and careless habits be-come manifest. This variety is sometimes superimposed onthe Hebephrenic form. Physical Signs.—In the early stages of Dementia Praecoxthe patient is in indifferent health, with a sallow complexionand a poor pulse. The hair tends to stand on end, and Stoddarthas pointed out that there is frequently complete transversewrinkling on the forehead. The deep reflexes are notabtyexaggerated. Patients take their food well, as a rule, and intime tend to improve phys

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