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UNTIL recently the outlook for patients suffering from the disease known as general paralysis of the insane was practically hopeless. For many years, however, it has been known that the symptoms sometimes exhibited remarkable remissions, the delusions and other mental disturbances subsided or even disappeared for a time, whilst the physical condition underwent a similar improvement. It had been further observed that these remissions were often associated with some intercurrent disease, and attempts were made to induce them artificially by such measures as the production of abscesses or injection of bacterial toxins. The improvement was, however, only transient; sooner or later the mental symptoms reappeared, the patients returned to the asylum, and the disease pursued its relentless course to a fatal termination. In 1919 Wagner v. Jauregg of Vienna, as the res https://www.toblay.com/ ult of many years' observation of general paralysis, concluded that possibly it was the rise of t...