The case of the beneficial influence of a repeated erysipelas process at the end of a mental disorder, recognized as incurable

Abstract

Our hospital practice gives us quite a few cases of lingering mental disorders, which are taking such an unfavorable course that there is no reason to count on recovery or at least a significant improvement in the disease. In such cases, according to all the painful symptoms, it is undoubtedly evident that the manifestations of persistent, secondary dementia have already begun; to inquiries of the patient's relatives, who require the doctor for the most part to give a categorical answer regarding the outcome of this case, the psychiatrist, no matter how careful he may be in the prognosis, has to give answers to the very unfavorable content.