Journal of Mental Science (1947) 93: 644-649. doi: 10.1192/bjp.93.392.644
© 1947 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
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Leptazol Therapy in Mental Disorders: A Modification using Sodium Amytal

P. MacDonald Tow, M.B., Beit research Fellow, Assistant Physician

Research Department, Runwell Hospital, Wickford

ABSTRACT

There are several indications in psychiatry for leptazol therapy, but it has fallen out of favour largely because of its very unpleasant concomitants. A method of overcoming these is described, and its results in a series of in-patients and out-patients are discussed.