An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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CLOUSTON, Sir Thomas Smith

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A case of general paralysis at the age of sixteen.

J. ment. Sci., 23, 419-20, 1877.

Clouston, eminent English psychiatrist, was the first definitely to recognize the relationship between paresis and congenital syphilis and to report a case. This paper is also of interest as being the only recorded case of juvenile paresis at the time Ibsen wrote Ghosts, with its excellent portrayal of the condition in the person of Oswald Alving.



Subjects: LITERATURE / Philosophy & Medicine & Biology, NEUROLOGY › Neurosyphilis, NEUROLOGY › Paralysis › General Paresis