Neurosyphilis

This book was written by two distinguished neuropsychiatrists, Elmer Ernest Southard and Harry C. Solomon. Southard is well-known for pioneering the study of brain pathology with particular interests in shell shock (modern-day PTSD) and schizophrenia, while Solomon was among the first to call for the closure of large, public mental hospitals and let them be replaced with community-based facilities. Here, the two offered their understanding of the illness neurosyphilis, an infection of the central nervous system in a patient with syphilis.