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On the Use of Galvanism in the Treatment of Certain Forms of Insanity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Joseph Wiglesworth*
Affiliation:
Rainhill Asylum

Extract

The question of the value of electricity in the treatment of insanity is one concerning which much difference of opinion appears to prevail, although there seems to be a more or less general idea that it is, or ought to be, of some service. We every now and then read of cases which have progressed to recovery under the application of this agent, but, as far as one can judge from published records, very little has hitherto been done in this country to study the question at all thoroughly or systematically.

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

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Footnotes

Paper read at the Psychology Section of the British Medical Association, August, 1887.

References

“Journal of Mental Science,” April, 1873.Google Scholar

Ibid., Oct., 1884.Google Scholar

§ Ibid., April, 1884.Google Scholar

Ilnd., January, 1885.Google Scholar

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