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The Sixteenth Maudsley Lecture: Physical Symptoms in Acute Confusional Insanity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 February 2018
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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.
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- Part I.—Original Articles
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- Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1935
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