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Convulsion Therapy of the Psychoses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Andrew M. Wyllie
Andrew M. Wyllie*
Affiliation:
Deputy Physician Superintendent, Crichton Royal, Dumfries
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Treatment by convulsion therapy implies the administration of analeptic drugs in massive doses to induce major epileptiform convulsions. Usually a single convulsion is induced on each occasion and this is done two or three times weekly. The number of convulsions varies greatly in different cases, but is commonly from five to twenty.

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Research Article
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 86 , Issue 361 , March 1940 , pp. 248 - 259
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1940 

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