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The Relation of Focal Infection to Mental Disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Nicholas Kopeloff  and
George H. Kirby
Nicholas Kopeloff
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Institute, Ward's Island, N.Y
George H. Kirby
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Institute, Ward's Island, N.Y
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The recent contributions of Hunter (1) and Moynihan (2) are significant of the importance of focal infection or “sepsis” in mental disease. Cotton's (3) view that toxæmia resulting from focal infection is the specific cause of the “functional” psychoses is well known on both sides of the Atlantic. Further, his therapeutic claims for surgical detoxication are only too familiar.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 75 , Issue 309 , April 1929 , pp. 267 - 270
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1929 

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References

1 Hunter, W., “Chronic Sepsis as a Cause of Mental Disorder. I. Relation of Focal Sepsis to Mental Disease,” Brit. Med. Journ., No. 3487, November 5, 1927, pp. 811–814; Journ. Ment. Sci., lxxiii, 1927, pp. 549-563.Google Scholar
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