Mrs. Auguste D{eter} demise in 1906 was in Aminoff Suffering Syndrome.


The medical, functional, cognitive, and emotional condition of Mrs Auguste Deter during her last months and days are characteristic of the Aminoff suffering syndrome.

Aminoff suffering syndrome in advanced dementia is a proposed symptomatologic and pathological entity with irreversible and intractable aggravation of suffering and medical condition until death and could be prognostic indicator of 6-month mortality15,16 in elderly people with advanced dementia and a key criterion for enrolling patients to palliative settings or alternatively to relief of suffering units.