SYPHILIS IN THE EAST LOUISIANA HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE: A Wassermann Survey of Sixteen Hundred Patients
Abstract
INSANE.*OF SIXTEENPATIENTS.By CHAS.Assistant Superintendent in EastS. HOLBROOK,Louisiana HospitalM. D.,for Insane, Jackson, La.Syphilis, fertile During sixteenth first time seventeenth nineteenth symptomatology studied, thatmanifestations, since and world the thehas fifteenth beginning was visited the andbeen century. of the for theand productive the latter part centuries, by this andfield for study of the fifteenth the wholemost important disease. eighteenth centuries, and the had natural been so history thoroughly of thisDuring especiallysixteenth, during the its proteancentury, hardly to theof syphilis disease of the work knowledge greatest the his causal on the studies sucha manifestation brilliant Diday, of that and the âFournierâs of his tabes, diseases, contribution etc., present-dayremained men of of relationship as Mor-be discovered. In addition gagni, responsible Dr. perhaps,Ricord, for states wasto paresisWallace, much his nervousFournier syphilis. workindividual essential and of due to working thatlong searchdemonstration andof identitythese the Thepropaganda syphilis the in has painsthesubject of tremendous during thesyphilis strides twentiethand marriage.â that the knowledge century sacrifices andhas ofbeen scientiststaking observations and laboratories. In 1903 Metchenichoff wasended thefor thein apes.Schaudinn and*meeting ofthe American 1916.pallida.Medico-seventy-secondAssociation,Orleans,La.,4-7, 262 In[Oct. applied diagnosis whatI#{231})oâ, Wassermann, reaction of Bordet andNeisser Gengou testand forBruck to the syphilis,the of issyphilis, and developed as now known as the Wassermann