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The Relation of Chronic Sepsis to So-called Functional Mental Disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

T. C. Graves
T. C. Graves*
Affiliation:
Rubery Hill Mental Hospital, Birmingham
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It is interesting to recall that fifty-five years ago Maudsley wrote as follows:

“There is no want of evidence that organic morbid poisons bred in the organism or in the blood itself may act in the most baneful manner upon the supreme nervous centres. The earliest and mildest mental effect by which a perverted state of blood declares itself is not in the production of positive delusion or incoherence of thought, but in a modification of mental tone.

“The further effect is to engender a chronic delusion of some kind.

“A third effect of its more acute action is to produce more or less active delirium and general incoherence of thought.”(I)

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 69 , Issue 287 , October 1923 , pp. 465 - 471
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1923 

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(1) Maudsley, Henry, The Physiology and Pathology of the Mind, 1867.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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