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Observations on Epileptics—Illustrating their Reaction to the Purin in Diet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Leonard D. H. Baugh*
Affiliation:
Gartloch Mental Hospital

Extract

In a former paper diet was referred to as a part of the management of the epileptics under care in a mental hospital, and the opinion expressed that, on a diet mainly purin-free, tendencies to serial fits, confused states and dream states appear less marked.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1910 

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References

1 Writer, The. —“Observations on Insane Epileptics, treated under Hospital Principles,” Journal of Mental Science, July, 1908.Google Scholar
2 Walker Hall, I.‘The Purin Bodies of Food Stuffs,’ (published 1903).Google Scholar
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