PARALYSIS AGITANS IN NEGROES

Abstract

Paralysis agitans is rare in negroes. The patient whose case is here reported was the only negro among the ninety-two persons suffering from it admitted to the Philadelphia General Hospital (Blockely) during the last eight years. I find no case recorded at the Orthopedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases. The number of negroes treated at the latter hospital, however, is relatively small; at Blockley it is large. Dr. James W. McConnell tells me that at the clinic for nervous diseases at the University of Pennsylvania he has not found any case recorded save the patient who later came under my care at Blockley. I have never seen any other case, and in a rapid glance over the literature of the disease I have found no reference to its occurrence in the negro. Patient A negro man aged 52 was admitted to the hospital June 3, 1912.