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HISTORY. 



Supplied by the Medical- Corps of the Columbus Hospital for 

 the Insane. 



J W. S was admitted to this institution June 



20th, 1 89 1. He was a native of Ohio, forty years of age, a 

 merchant and a man of good education. He had been ad- 

 dicted to the use of intoxicants for several years but was more 

 temperate within the two or three previous to his admission. 

 There was no history of specific disease and he had been a man 

 of good character in his community and of active business 

 habits. The mental symptoms began about six months previous 

 to admission. When admitted he had delusions of grandeur 

 and was becoming somewhat demented. He imagined he was 

 quite wealthy and was anxious to run for the office of Governor 

 or of President of the United States. His pupils were unequal, 

 there was incoordination in gait and he had the characteristic 

 defect in speech that marks the paretic. There was no history 

 of insanity or nervous disease in his family and the cause as- 

 signed was financial trouble, of which he had had considerable. 

 His intemperance was also in my opinion a cause. He contin- 

 ued an inmate of the institution until his death, which occurred 

 Jan. 8th, 1893. 



He became rapidly more demented and the paresis in- 

 creased. His digestion was good during nearly all of the time 

 and only failed him within the last month or two before his 

 death. There was no evidence of focal lesion in a local paralysis 

 and the disease pursued the characteristic history of general 

 paralysis. I regret that the history is so meager, but while we 

 could add illustrations of his delusions they would be of no 

 value in a Pathological Bulletin. The previous history is diffi- 

 cult to secure, but there was nothing very characteristic in his 

 life as far as we can discover. He was a man of active business 

 habits and at one time was worth considerable property, but he 

 lost it all, his reverses, in part at least, being due to his 

 dissipation. 



It is further stated that the first symptoms of motor en- 



