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Some Observations on the Fasting Blood-sugar in Certain Mental States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

P. B. Mumford
Affiliation:
Cheshire Mental Hospital, Macclesfield; Manchester and Salford Skin Hospital
G. G. Parkin
Affiliation:
Cheshire Mental Hospital, Macclesfield

Extract

The work mentioned hereunder was commenced with a view to investigating the alterations in the sugar content of the blood and urine which have been observed in the insane, and to consider whether they are necessarily pathological, or whether they are merely normal sympathetic reactions to an abnormal extra-sympathetic stimulus.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1923 

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