DEMENTIA
Categories:
Diseases of The Nervous System
This term literally means "from mind," out of mind, and such a
person is in a state of the most deplorable mental poverty. We all have
seen such cases and some cases are not only very sad but disgusting.
PRIMARY DEMENTIA comes on independently of any other form of insanity.
SECONDARY DEMENTIA follows after some other form of insanity,--chiefly
melancholia or mania. Dementia may be acute or chronic.