General Paresis

Excerpt from General Paresis
My "Introduction to Clinical Psychiatry" having up to this time been alone translated into English, colleagues Jelliffe and Moore have now rendered accessible to English-speaking physicians a chapter from my "Textbook of Psychiatry." This enterprise I hail with pleasure because, in precisely the domain here considered, the last decade has brought a series of extremely important additions to our knowledge, which are not yet included in the English edition of the "Introduction" more particularly. Although unfortunately we still find ourselves at a long distance from the solution of the paresis problem, nevertheless certain modes of enquiry and experimental possibilities are now available, arousing new anticipations in regard to a better understanding of paresis, and perhaps its improved treatment in the future. Precisely America, so greatly our superior in the ample means at her command for the pursuit of learning, would find an extensive field of scientific research in the investigation of the etiology and body metabolism, the chemical and serological problems with which we are confronted. The long standing amicable relations between German and American psychiatrists will, I trust, receive an added support through the present translation.
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