What is "praecox"

Usage examples of "praecox".

She tore strips of paper from her legal pads, fastened them into long yellow loops, inscribed each one with Collatio bonorum and Dementia praecox, and tied them loosely around Kelerison's wrists and ankles.

A trial for poisoning means an exhaustive study not only of analytic chemistry, but of practical medicine on the part of all the lawyers in the case, while a plea of insanity requires that, for the time being, the district attorney shall become an alienist, familiar with every aspect of paranoia, dementia praecox, and all other forms of mania.

What he's done is to go into what they used to call dementia praecox.

Fundamentally Carl is a snob, an aristocratic little prick who lives in a dementia praecox kingdom all his own.

Afghan specialists were called in and diagnosed dementia praecox with possible overlays of adolescent catatonia.

That was merely obsessive manic-depression bordering on dementia praecox.

The Syphilis Empire, The Republic of Suicide, Dementia Praecox, which of course borders on beautiful Paranoia.

He had all the symptoms of what was then called dementia praecox and would be so diagnosed.

It wouldn't be ridiculous to ponder the possibility that Vanning was a victim of dementia praecox, extremely shrewd about hiding it, underneath the disease a good man, but dominated by the disease, a murderer and a terror.

Lyman believes that this note contains positive proof of a well-developed case of dementia praecox , but Willett on the other hand regards it as the last perfectly sane utterance of the hapless youth.

Lyman believes that this note contains positive proof of a well-developed case of dementia praecox, but Willett on the other hand regards it as the last perfectly sane utterance of the hapless youth.

If all precedents hold, the honeymoon promises to be a veritable jubilee of ejaculatio praecox.