Word: dementia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...divided mind." Bleuler (1857-1939) was not satisfied with the rigid 19th century view of "dementia praecox" as a single, precisely definable disease whose victims were doomed to progressive deterioration. In 1911 he characterized the various forms of withdrawal from the real to an unreal world as "a group of schizophrenias." Most importantly, he insisted that continuous deterioration was not inevitable...
...cared for 1,000 female patients. There she tended a countess who thought she was a dog and ate from a plate in the center of the floor, a onetime abbess whose chief quirk was to wear a brown-paper bag on her head night and day, and a dementia praecox case who thought she was the Archangel Gabriel and nearly succeeded in strangling Gabrielle to death...
...Dickens' best-documented accounts of disease occur in Bleak House, in which he describes the paraplegia of Grandfather Smallweed, who is "in a helpless condition as to his lower, and nearly so as to his upper limbs," and the senile dementia of his wife, who suffers from "such infantine graces as a total want of observation, memory, understanding and interest, and an eternal disposition to fall asleep over the fire and into...
...roll set is gobbling this one up fast. Its gimmick: a regular snapping sound on the offbeat, like a whipcrack. The lead singer, presumably frightened by that whip, shrieks in a quivering, gasping falsetto. A nerve-racking specimen of the continuing rock-'n'-roll dementia...
True, this was not known until recent years. But to Dr. Summerskill that is no obstacle. Shakespeare, he suggests, was so astute in his medical observations that he could be 350 years ahead of his time with a case report of "chronic dementia in liver disease due to intolerance of nitrogenous substances...