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The Treatment of Melancholia by the Lactic Acid Bacillus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

J. George Porter Phillips
J. George Porter Phillips*
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Bethlem Royal Hospital
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Melancholia, with its attendant constipation and faulty alimentation, lends itself at once to a dietetic form of treatment.

Whether the constipation is dependent on defective innervation and is a direct symptom of melancholia or is the initial cause of this mental disturbance, it matters not so far as our endeavours in treatment are concerned.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 56 , Issue 234 , July 1910 , pp. 422 - 430
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1910 

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