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Problems of Pyretotherapy in Paralytic Dementia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

H. Wilfred Eddison
H. Wilfred Eddison*
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Wonford House Hospital, Exeter
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Pyretotherapy, or the artificial induction of pyrexia as a means of treatment of the psychoses, has engaged the attention of psychiatrists for many years. The means employed to this end have been numerous, and they may be divided into two classes:

1. Chemical: Hypodermic injections of sodium nucleinate; or of protein in the form of peptone, blood, milk, tuberculin or emulsions of dead bacilli.

2. Infective: The introduction of living organisms, especially Plasmodium vivax malariæ and Spirochete recurrentis duuoni.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 76 , Issue 312 , January 1930 , pp. 66 - 81
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1930 

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