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The Sixteenth Maudsley Lecture: Physical Symptoms in Acute Confusional Insanity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

L. C. Bruce*
Affiliation:
The Hospital, Murthly, Perthshire

Extract

I am fully aware of the honour and responsibility conferred on anyone who is asked to deliver a Maudsley Lecture. That great physician realized that the knowledge of medicine advances by devious paths. I have availed myself of his broadmindedness to lay before you to-day some of the physical symptoms associated with a group of mental cases labelled “acute confusional insanity I will lay before you facts which support the belief that in all these cases the departure from health affects the functions of the whole body, the heat-regulating centre, the cellular and serum defences, the renal functions, the carbohydrate metabolism, and the effect of the injection of insulin on low blood sugar.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1935 

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References

1 Shera, , Journ. Ment. Sci., July, 1931, p. 573.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2 Oriel, and Barber, , Lancet, August 2, 1930, p. 231.Google Scholar
3 Kindly given me by Dr. O'Brien of the Wellcome Research Institute.Google Scholar
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