INSANITY, OTHER THAN PARESIS, IN LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA
Abstract
No.3INSANITY, OTHER THANIN LOCOMOTORPARESIS,Professor of MentalW. Buru,M. D.,Philadelphia, Pa.Diseases,of Pennsylvania,I think that insane person we are on the, at the haustivemost of sufferingus, in our routine work, with locomotor ataxia, a diagnosis unnecessary symptomswhen we are prone,see an unless taking an ex-guard, time, study ofto make seemingly the mentalof paresis without trouble of making present: I am surewhen we are told the insanity has been of long duration we sometimes jump to the diagnosis of paresis even more hurriedly. Haste in diagnosis is, of course, always inexcusable but so closely are paresis often ties. does and tabes associated prevented of this paper from any both changes location of of type together in our minds that we are subconsciously The purpose not protect from thinking is to emphasize of insanity arise identical lesion, and from the of other the fact that the possibilithat tabes may causes only of diftabeticsall types same theoccur in ataxic persons. When we remember and ference who very that the being morbid thediseases are thein both, numberbecome paretic large number of anyis smaller than one them pass through It is no ataxia for We all have entirely sane many seen evenwould expect: life showing thing