The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-03-13
WHAT'S PARESIS?
Dr.. Hammond and Others Tell
Of the Awful Brain Disease.
Dissipation of Any Character Is Liable
to Cause It - The First Symp-
toms of the Terrible Curse.

Paresis is a term that the newspaper reading pub
lie have been familiar with but few years. II is a
brain trouble that has seized such victims Rob
ert Garrett, once President OF the Baltimore and
Ohio Railway; John Mccullough. BARLEY Camp
bell, Tony Hart, aud now has its hold on W. J.
seaman This trouble. which has proved the deadly
curse Of contemporary civilization. is remarkable
from Psychological point ITS rapid increase aud
the deadly persistence with which IL selects vie
iins from alt walks 80 life.
There is one physician in san Francisco WHO has
made brain trouble he study Of his life. and TO him
but that character of disease This has diplO-
mas from the best English aud American colleges
but requested his name Withheld.
..Paresis Is not new TO SCIENCE" he said 1T has
been known - uS Tor half century, but the fatal
Significance OF the word aud tue individually or
the terrible tn ing ii stands for seem to have Iy
be- un TO be re zsd by the public From the fir ST
fate aggravated by tle grave suspicion. and some
tunes the open accusation that la order TO have
tissue-wast .ng civilization. they must frsr have
been guilty OF some awful excess, al indescrioabe
indulgence, as a punishment Tor which in ancient
periods fire wa sent from heaven.
This is All wrong A man need not have been
OF paress. and IL Is not necessarily reflection
either him or his family Its principal cause is dis
lcotuai. but not necessarily of a degraded kind.
though thai causes many cases. We have treated
many cases. our patients being from the upper as
well as from the lower walks OF lie"
The physician was one OF the sar OF specialists at
the weliknown Cosmopolitan Dispensary, corner
Of Market, Stockton and Ellis streets where proba
bly, more patients are successfully treated than by
DIR. William A. Hammond, President OF the
American Neurological Association. and pro baby
one OF the most noted physicians OF the present
age says that paresis is now probably the best
| known In It's symptoms, pathology and morbid
] anatomy OF all the forms OF mental arrangements.
| Headache is one OF the first symptoms. Another
| symptom, and a very suspicious one. Is gradual
obvious chunge Ia the mental characteristics
| The person He makes investments, forms rela-
tions, commits obscene acts or perpetrates frauds
under circumstances that sure to lead detec-
| ton An almost general state of exhiIaratIon is
felt, ana be expresses anxiety abcIt trifiiug sub
| jects It Is disease OF the brain tissues mind
tissues the outer portions OF the braia in which
the highly developed cerebral processes 20 on.
| Ii Is n OF hereditary.
| Or George lie Forrest Smith the New York ex-
| pert Oh mental diseases. say:
lit Is a fearful incident to the contemplation OF
| horrible malady. but one nevertheless to be
sidered that men have incipient paresis long be-
fore the friends suspect IL, and that the gradual
| degradation OF the mans moral nature and the
| growing depravity OF his tastes were la reality
only the symptoms that the frlsbtfui plague al
ready at work IN his BRAIN
..Ihe real causes? Dihcut to partcu!arize but
easily recognizable and well understood by the
practitioner 0ver-taxation OF the nervous system
is the chief either by excessive mental work
| cessiye dissipation. Hard drinking. by weakening
the blood vessels of the BRAIN may lead to paresis.
So may and Indeed often does. the disease of the
blood which has worked such havoc among maIl-
| kind since medieval times"
There are In California many victims OF paresis,
and while In pfeh mary stage OF the disease are
IN durable condition. There ply sicians on the
! stan oil the Cosmopolitan Dispensary who are
specialists I'm this particular disease They charge
nothing to patients for consultation thorough ex-
| animation advice. AS there are impos;orS in
Califo MIA who assume names similar to theirs and
initiate their styles OF advertising, people should be
careful that they 20 to tse proper p ace-Cosmopol-
itan Dspensary, Market Ellis and Stockton streets,
san Francisco. Through their methods OF quest on
anks PEE Pc living out OF the city can be treated
| by c. rrespoudence. an IT costs nothing write
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