Senile Dementia  Dear Sir I am new to Wikipedia and not sure this is the right way to communicate with you but thanks for your reply to my edit on James Cowles Prichard He was actually the first person to name senile dementia which I am campaigning for its own page in Wikipedia at the moment you get deflected to dementia Prichards definition of senile dementia is on page  of his Treatise on Insanity  which antedated the Oxford English Dictionarys entry of  in  when I found it Senile dementia or the decay of the mental faculties is not the lot of old persons universally though it is a condition to which old age may be said to have tendency and to which the last stage of bodily decay some approximations are generally to be perceived Whats fascinating is that Prichard dedicated his Treatise on Insanity to Esquirol who was taught by Pinel who famously released patients from their shackles in France It seems that most historians threw the baby out with the bathwater when they discredited Prichards insanity masterpiece on senile dementia as he also talks at length about moral insanity which has since been disproved I think it might actaully help older people with dementia if their condition was renamed Prichards Disease I also think the length of Wikipedia articles on the histories of dementia Alzheimers Disease senility and senile dementia needs to increase    Thank you for your interesting reply