Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2034

RICHARD VON KRAFFT-EBING (1840-1902) Die progressive allgemeine Paralyse. Alfred Hölder 1894 [8] 108 pp. 24 cm.

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By the middle of the nineteenth century there were increasing numbers of patients suffering from partial or general paralysis frequently accompanied by delirium and convulsions. Although the cause remained unknown until the beginning of the twentieth century, the French were successful in recognizing, describing, and establishing diagnostic criteria for general paralysis. However, it remained for Krafft-Ebing to link general paralysis to syphilis through a series of carefully designed experiments. Even so, it was not until Schaudinn's discovery of Spirochaeta pallida in 1905 that the serological proof was obtained. It was in the present work that Krafft-Ebing described his work on the symptoms, diagnosis, and therapy for general paralysis. His work appears here in Volume IX, Part III of Nothnagel's Specielle Pathologie und Therapie.