Word: praecox
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...neurologists offered definite recommendations: "1) Our knowledge of human genetics has not the precision nor amplitude which would warrant the sterilization of people who themselves are normal in order to prevent the appearance, in their descendants, of manic-depressive psychosis, dementia praecox, feeblemindedness, epilepsy, criminal conduct or any of the conditions which we have had under consideration...
Committed to the State asylum for the insane at Elgin, Ill., was William Rockne, 19, son of Notre Dame's late Football Coach Knute Kenneth Rockne. His disease: dementia praecox. At Carlton, Saskatchewan, Author John Buchan, First Baron Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada, was crowned with feathers, draped in caribou skin, made a member of the Cree tribe, under the name Okemow Otataowkew ("Teller of Tales...
...head, the second time into the madman's body. On the way to the hospital, the man, still violent, shouted "Fitzgerald." Weaker he whispered "Fitzgerald" once more before he died. He was Morris Fitzgerald, 36, sometime convict and escaped inmate of an insane asylum, suffering with dementia praecox...
...tropics and certain foreign stations longer than two years. Surgeon General Robert Urie Patterson of the Army pleaded before a Senate committee for the two year restriction. About 500 men are being discharged from the Army each year because of mental derangements. Most common cause is dementia praecox. The large majority of cases arise in the Army's overseas departments-the Philippines, Hawaii, Canal Zone. Surgeon General Patterson blames the tropics: "Residence in the tropic regions at or near the sea level is unfavorable to the health of Northern races. Among the things which may exercise deleterious effects...
...Last year he was convicted, and soon paroled, by the Juvenile Court for having molested an 8-year-old. (But according to the coroner small Dorette Zietlow had not been touched.) George Rogalski announced he hated his mother, who it appeared was a sexual delinquent once confined for dementia praecox. He liked his father, an $18-a-week bakery employee who told newshawks: "Let them kill him, I'd like to see them. . . . I done all I could with...