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Toxic Psychosis Following Mumps

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Kenneth M. G. Keddie
Kenneth M. G. Keddie*
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Barrow and Glenside Hospitals, Bristol
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Mumps, or epidemic parotitis, is caused by a filterable virus and is characterized by temporary enlargement of the parotid and sometimes other salivary glands and by the occurrence of complications, of which orchitis in adults and in post-pubertal boys is the most common. The virus is pantropic causing central and peripheral nervous complications in many cases. In civilized countries the disease is endemic but local outbreaks occur. One such outbreak occurred in Bristol during 1964, in the spring, the season when mumps is most prevalent. The case that is described here formed a part of that particular epidemic. Before proceeding to the case report the literature on the psychiatric complications of mumps will be discussed.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 111 , Issue 477 , August 1965 , pp. 691 - 696
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1965 

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