Word: dementia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nolan D. C. Lewis of New York, a top-notch authority on dementia praecox, last week told colleagues of the case of a 65-year-old man whose vision was impaired by cataracts and who had hallucinations that he was engaging in unprintable conduct with young girls. Doctors removed the cataracts. But the hallucinations persisted...
...Most widespread U. S. mental disorder, according to expert opinion, is dementia praecox, or schizophrenia (split personality). Dr. Dayton's statistics tell a different story. Mental disease No. 1 is senile psychosis, the madness of old age. Causes: hardened arteries, threadbare nervous system, worn-out brain, tired heart, "outrageous fortune." From 1917 to 1933, there was an average of 2,000 senile psychotics per 100,000 population; schizophrenics averaged only...