  == Senile Dementia == Dear Sir I am new to Wikipedia and not sure this is the right way to communicate with you, but thanks for your reply to my edit on James Cowles Prichard. He was actually the first person to name senile dementia which I am campaigning for its own page in Wikipedia, at the moment you get deflected to dementia. Prichard's definition of senile dementia is on page 92 of his Treatise on Insanity (1835) which antedated the Oxford English Dictionary's entry (of 1851) in 2009 when I found it. 'Senile dementia, or the decay of the mental faculties is not the lot of old persons universally, though it is a condition to which old age may be said to have tendency, and to which the last stage of bodily decay some approximations are generally to be perceived.' What's fascinating is that Prichard dedicated his Treatise on Insanity to Esquirol who was taught by Pinel who famously released patients from their shackles in France. It seems that most historians threw the baby out with the bathwater when they discredited Prichard's 'insanity' masterpiece on senile dementia as he also talks at length about 'moral insanity' which has since been disproved. I think it might actaully help older people with dementia if their condition was renamed 'Prichard's Disease'. I also think the length of Wikipedia articles on the histories of dementia, Alzheimer's Disease, senility and senile dementia needs to increase.    :Thank you for your interesting reply.   