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A Clinical and Psychometric Study of the Effects of Procaine Amide in Huntington's Chorea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

H. Merskey
H. Merskey*
Affiliation:
Cherry Knowle Hospital, Nr. Sunderland
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Beneficial results with procaine amide in the treatment of Huntington's Chorea were first reported by Goldman (1952). He was led to make an oral trial of the drug after having noticed a patient in the dentist's chair improve following an injection. He found improvement in six cases with the typical syndrome of Huntington's Chorea, of whom four had a positive family history of the disease. The evidence of improvement in these cases was partly based upon clinical observation and partly upon the patient's account of changes in his daily experience, for example, his first case had difficulty in eating, which had led to protests from other customers at a restaurant he had frequented, and this disability is said to have been satisfactorily reduced with the help of the drug.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 104 , Issue 435 , April 1958 , pp. 411 - 420
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1958 

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