Assertion: dementia | /r/HasProperty | applied to syphilis
Facets:
value: to the dementia
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: equally
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Dementia at this time simply referred to anyone who had lost the ability to reason, and was applied equally to psychosis, "organic" diseases like syphilis that destroy the brain, and to the dementia associated with old age, which was attributed to "hardening of the arteries".