general paralysis of the insane

Bazar, for example, cites the symptoms of late stage syphilis, or what was then understood as “general paralysis of the insane.”

Termed general paralysis of the insane, it was widely supposed by early practitioners to be caused by bad heredity, ‘weak character’ or moral turpitude.

������ we now know to be a late stage of the disease was at the time termed “general paralysis of the insane.”

Toward the end of the century, as many as one in five people entering asylums had general paralysis of the insane.

The pair took pus from the sores of syphilitics and injected it into patients suffering from general paralysis of the insane.