Syphilitic aortitis (Continued) by Miravet, Horacio

“…As an omen, what the Germans have described as "Todesangts" or "Todesgefuehl", i.e., the almost absolute certainty of the proximity of the attack, which certain patients usually have: Allbutt emphasized this psychic state by describing it as a subjectivity whose main characteristic consisted precisely in the terrifying conviction of the imminence of death. …”
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