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Somnifaine Narcosis: Toxic Symptoms and Their Treatment by Insulin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Rolf Ström-Olsen
Rolf Ström-Olsen*
Affiliation:
Cardiff City Mental Hospital
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During the last decade prolonged narcosis has been accepted as a most valuable form of treatment in mental disorder, but many psychiatrists refuse to use it because of its dangers. The present paper presents clinical and laboratory evidence that a method has been devised whereby most of the toxic symptoms can be obviated. It is claimed that a large proportion of these symptoms are due to upset of carbohydrate metabolism of the liver and heart by the narcotic, and that in the administration of insulin and glucose as an integral part of the treatment a rational method of prevention has been evolved. No attempt is made to record the results of treatment, as it is proposed to publish this separately, the aim of the present paper being to show the elimination of toxic symptoms by the suggested modification of treatment.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 79 , Issue 327 , October 1933 , pp. 638 - 658
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1933 

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