Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-04-29
CEREBRAL DISEASES.
DIR. william A. Hammond on the
Alarming Growth Of General
Paralysis.

Prof. VIM. A. Hammond delivered an
interesting addres before the Medico-
Legal Society upon General Paralysis
of the Insane" in New York on Wednes-
day, in which he described the symp-
toms of general paralysis as follows:
Paralytic insanity is the better name,
and its symptoms can be described so
that the disease can be recognized when
it is seen. Physical symptoms first
manifest themselves, the mental symp-
toms following later on. The former
are not always we'll defined. Usually
there is tremulous motion about the
lips, as if the person was about to burst
into tears. Tremor of the upper lip lis
indicative of the presence of paralysis
of the muscles, which extends to all the
muscles of the body. Impediment, OF
speech follows-the trouble heing more
with the mechanism of speech than with
the idea of speech. Presently the men,
tai symptoms come on. The patient
does things showing lack of the decan-
cies of every day life. Frequently the
mania takes the form ofinordinate mon
ey spending. Once one of my patients
went down town and bought several
hundred shoYels, another bought all the
dogs he could find, and still another
undertook the task of buying pretty
nearly all the iewelry of large estab-
llshment, and only stopped when the
prOprieturs, becoming alarmed, refused
to sell him any more, This man took
the jewelry he purchased home, and be-
decking his wife until she glittered with
gems from head To foot, compelled heg
10 walk up aud down before him. Whdh
| was sent for the patient told me he
WAS going 10 Europe, lie intended TO
make the voyage over In the Great
Eastern and would charter the scotia a.
q tender, lie would pay me @i,00e,0oe
q month and he would have 4 band on
the vessel, the members OF which should
be attiFed In y uniform OF blue velvet
with diamond buttons,
The speaker then described other
types Of aeluslNn IN the early stages OF
tile diaease, and added "A patient once
told me he had purchased all the carpet
Factories In the World, another owned
all Tie traut streams ~ the country and
yet another Was the most lovely man IN
Tho WgTd, All tbs W0men were w love
With him, and we're Hlfnlk WIN adnlr
ration aa hp walked along tho streets,
A man who thought himself very light
explained tho eg0llam by claiming that
no WIS fllad with angela and would a90n
Aalnnd Into space After lhn symptoms
which have deagrlhfd tTem0l. 0f the
lipA Ahd difficulty 0f hpaaellw There n
% exaggerated movement about The
fRga m " tho whole mind WAS IN tho aet
NJ RTilpnlall0ni nna ~ The pupils hAs
comes larger than The 0tller, " sire sian
NJ gnnpFAl nRlalYAlaI thprA II Als9 u
dr01nlng VT thn nlnlr nyelld, the eynhall
turns and the patient sometimes Aaea
double, Defective aenAihllllg e9nsa on
snph M DnnhneHa NJ lhe hallds and feet,
anj laek Of AeDsbllliy, ~ fact In MI lhe
MUSCLES NJ the body Stunning " tlla
feti h lsn0ilnealha, And paralysis " tliu
lower llhlbs 0lten fHll0Wai ~ some ela
saa The sympi0lns disappear for \ tlne,
and ~ Ihp GENERAL observer The person
~ 4 well hlai " w0hiAli Fllls tslAls'
sl0n sometimes lasts TOT 4 Few nljiilhs,
| have had two ehses whefs II lasted
eleven nlUnlilsi HUI the disease feluflls
with Increased ylOlenee Then tho ilsH
tlslll has e0hyHlsl6hs and ehf9fees the
truth OF his dslusl0ns NY physical VIC
ieHee. hlept0mshla II 0llH ef its forms,