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AN OBSERVATION ON THE TREATMENT OF MENTAL CASES WITH SUB-SHOCK DOSES OF INSULIN

C. R. BENNETT and T. K. MILLERAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 96, Number 4

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.96.4.961

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1. We have observed, in the past year and a half, among a mixed population of over 2400 patients, that a course of sub-shock doses of insulin is effective in controlling most of the problems of management of uncooperative mental patients.

2. The necessity of sedation by drugs can be limited to epileptics and emergency nocturnal disturbances.

3. Difficult feeding cases can be largely corrected by the use of sub-shock doses of insulin.

4. Sub-shock doses of insulin are effective in all types of cases where there are no physical contraindications.

5. No special equipment or personnel is necessary to carry out this form of therapy.

6. Sub-shock insulin therapy is effective in aborting caruncles, carbuncles and acne simplex, as well as in producing more rapid healing in the well-developed lesion.

7. Sub-shock insulin therapy is in no sense considered a curative therapy although many favorable remissions occur.

8. There is need for further controlled study of this type of therapy.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 96 • Number 4 • January 1940

Pages: 961 - 966

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Published in print: January 1940

Published online: 1 April 2006

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C. R. BENNETT

Camarillo State Hospital, Camarillo, Calif.

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T. K. MILLER

Camarillo State Hospital, Camarillo, Calif.

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AN OBSERVATION ON THE TREATMENT OF MENTAL CASES WITH SUB-SHOCK DOSES OF INSULIN

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