Paresis

In this case the patient dies for want of nourishment; either in three or four weeks, of the inirritative fever; or without quick pulse, by what we have called paresis irritativa. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

In November 1939, suffering from the general deterioration of paresis (a late stage of syphilis), he was released and entered a Baltimore hospital. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Actually, he tried tuberculin first, but tuberculosis, while perhaps preferable to general paresis, is still a pretty devastating disease. ❋ Gary Greenberg (2010)

Medical professionals will tell you that both types of diabetes are serious because they can cause the same debilitating and life-threatening diabetic complications, including heart attack, stroke, nerve damage, kidney failure, blindness, amputation, gastro-paresis, and sexual dysfunction. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Her father, an engineer, died of paresis (syphilitic insanity) when Hannah was seven, and episodic battles between Russian and German armies were fought near their home soon thereafter. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In 1931 there were no medications to treat mental illness (lobotomies came into vogue in 1935, for example) and psychiatry was divided between those doctors treating state hospital patients (many of whom had paresis or were schizophrenic/bipolar) who were considered “organic” and those who were more psychoanalytic, mostly in big cities. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I can cause a shaking that is called 'paralytic dementia', but used to be called 'general paresis of the insane'. ❋ Emma Lurie (2007)

Among these clearly would be Alzheimer's and other dementias, the general paresis caused by syphilis, and various other conditions known to have clear organic etiologies. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Less severe forms may befall the swain who keeps his arm on his date's chair back for an entire double feature, ignoring the growing pain and paresis. ❋ Unknown (2005)

He looked in upon a frail exile from the Caucasus buckled securely in a sort of hammock which in turn was submerged in a warm medical bath, and upon the three daughters of a Portuguese general who slid almost imperceptibly toward paresis. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Dick wrote that he was being asked by a secretive world health organization to spread the word about "paresis, an alleged new strain of syphilis sweeping the United States, which caused quick death." ❋ Unknown (2000)

Such loss may cause paresis and affect both vision and psychic functions. ❋ Unknown (1996)

Malaria therapy, along with the use of arsphenamine drugs, became the dominant treatment of paresis. ❋ Gerald N. Grob (1994)

In 1935 Pollock compared the period from 1926 to 1931 with the preceding five years; he found a marked increase in recovery and improvement rates and a decline in mortality for general paresis. ❋ Gerald N. Grob (1994)

The chronic population was heterogeneous: some were elderly; some had severe somatic disabilities e.g., paresis; some appeared to pose threats to themselves or to society; and some were individuals who failed to respond to therapy. ❋ Gerald N. Grob (1994)

The leading causes of death in rank order included heart disease, pneumonia, paresis, tuberculosis, arterial diseases, and nephritis. ❋ Gerald N. Grob (1994)

Indeed, White employed the new therapy not because of “any tremendous optimism” about results, but because he believed it “exceedingly important to prevent such problems as that of paresis from getting into the discard because of a general feeling of hopelessness about it.” ❋ Gerald N. Grob (1994)

This phase—known as general paralysis of the insane or paresis—involved massive damage to the central nervous system and brain and was characterized by dramatic behavioral symptoms, neurological deterioration, paralysis, and eventually death. ❋ Gerald N. Grob (1994)

Those who demonstrated an affinity for somatic explanations could point to paresis and pellagra as proof of their approach. ❋ Gerald N. Grob (1994)

[Man u] have paresis. ❋ AquaGuY03 (2019)