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Cocaine in the Treatment of Mental Disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

C. Heimann*
Affiliation:
Charlottenburg, Berlin

Extract

Certain therapeutic effects upon the human organism ascribed to cocaine,∗ occasioned me to make use of the drug in suitable cases of psychosis and psycho-neurosis. Stimulant action and exhilaration (Euphoria) on the one hand, and on the other depression of undue sensitiveness, these were the effects I looked for from the alkaloid. Unfortunately, I am able to record scarcely a single case of certain and permanent cure following the use of the drug.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1887

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