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On the Antiquity of General Paralysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

T. Claye Shaw*
Affiliation:
Middlesex Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch

Extract

Shakespeare has used the character of “Achilles” to pourtray in vivid language his own conception of a malady of the mind which modern pathologists choosing to consider have made familiar to us under the term of “General Paralysis.” Doubtless, the recognition of this as a distinct phase of insanity necessitating confinement in an asylum dates from comparatively recent times, but Shakespeare not only remarked and described the chief symptoms, but also noted them as constituting a disease of the mind, though probably he would not have classed those so afflicted with the rest of “Bedlam Beggars.”.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1869 

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References

Macmillan's Magaz., Nov. 1864, “On the Human Brain.”Google Scholar

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