[professordp]

In another thread I had an exchange about brain damage and protective headgear. Since the 1920s, dementia pugilistica has been recognized as a condition suffered by boxers.


Here's the definition:


"A condition seen especially in boxers, caused by repeated cerebral concussions and characterized by weakness in the lower limbs, unsteadiness of gait, slowness of muscular movements, hand tremors, hesitancy of speech, and cognitive impairment."


Jerry Quarry is perhaps the most famous who suffered from dementia pugilistica given the fact that he died from it at age fifty-three. Yet few remember it (or wish to talk about it) these days.


I'm refining a rating which I hope to post shortly on another boxer who met a similar fate.