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The Blood-Urea in Psychotics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

D. N. Parfitt*
Affiliation:
Warwick County Mental Hospital, Hatton

Extract

Although the blood-urea level is not uniformly distinctive of any type of psychosis or phase of a psychosis, yet its estimation in general psychiatric practice is probably as useful as any other test or reaction in use to-day.

Type
Part I—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1933 

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