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Thrombo-Phlebitis Occurring in Patients Receiving Barbiturates

An Unrecorded Complication of Sleep Treatment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

H. A. Palmer
H. A. Palmer*
Affiliation:
Woodside Hospital; Department of Psychological Medicine, St. Thomas's Hospital; Victoria Hospital for Sick Children, Chelsea
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In the extensive literature on sleep therapy some fifty complications have been recorded by the various authors. In a previous article (Journ. Ment. Sci., November, 1937) these were listed (pp. 660, 661) and divided into four main groups as follows:

  1. 1. Common complications: Representing mainly normal by-products of the treatment.

  2. 2. Complications involving particular tissues: Representing tissue idiosyncrasy.

  3. 3. Accidents.

  4. 4. True toxic complications: Representing a group which could not be regarded as either a necessary by-product of the treatment, an unavoidable expression of disproportionate sensitivity on the part of a particular tissue, or an accident which might be avoided.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 85 , Issue 355 , March 1939 , pp. 276 - 278
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1939 

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Palmer, H. A.—“The Value of Continuous Narcosis in Mental Disorder,” Journ. Ment. Sci., November, 1937, lxxxiii, p. 636.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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