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Therapeutic Malarialization of General Paralytics in the Tropics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

A. W. H. Smith
A. W. H. Smith*
Affiliation:
Central Mental Hospital, Tanjong Rambutan, Federated Malay States
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During the last few years, in which pyretotherapy has figured so largely in the treatment of general paralysis of the insane, the question must have arisen in many minds whether general paralysis occurs in communities where malaria is indigenous, and if so, whether satisfactory results would be obtained from further malarialization on artificial lines.

The Central Mental Hospital of the Federated Malay States has over 2,500 patients in residence, and draws its cases from the whole of the Malay Peninsula. Many races are represented besides the native Malay and associated races—Chinese, Japanese, Siamese, Indian, etc.—and malaria is indigenous over the whole territory.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 79 , Issue 324 , January 1933 , pp. 94 - 101
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1933 

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