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Old and New Methods of Treatment in General Paralysis: A Comparison of Results

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

G. E. Shand*
Affiliation:
Winson Green Mental Hospital, Birmingham

Extract

During the five years prior to the war I carried out a series of investigations on the treatment of general paralysis. The proportion of general paralytics resident at this hospital was then very high—some 40 out of our usual 350 males. The only treatment given by us up to that time had been mercury and potassium iodide.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1929 

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