Annual report of the Board of Control : 12th, 1925.

Date:: 1925

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so that the procedure is routine in all early general paralytics, provided that the friends afford their approval in writing. Advanced cases have also been treated, and these are included in the subjoined figures. It has been our experience that objection on the part of the relations is seldom raised. The following is a summary of the work carried out up to the present time :— 1. Total number of patients treated—15 Male; 3 Female. 2. Mode of inoculation—in 17 cases, Blood; and in one case, Mosquito. 3. Results :— (a) Two Male cases failed to show any alteration. (b) Three Male cases definitely improved, but not sufficiently to justify their discharge from the Hospital. (c) One case died. This patient showed a marked improvement after treatment, but subsequently developed a series of seizures, and died. (d) Six cases, five male and one female, improved very considerably and have been discharged to their homes. Of these, one is employed as chauffeur-gardener; one does clerical work in connection with his father’s business, and a third is able to assist his parents in their fish- shop, but has recently returned to the Hospital. One female case discharged is able to carry out her domestic duties; the other two patients are known to be progressing satsifactorily in their homes. (e) In two male cases the treatment is too recent for any results to be affirmed. (/) At the present time four male, and two female cases, are under treatment at the Hospital. The following is a precis of facts relating to the cases inoculated during 1925 1. Mode of inoculation in all cases—Blood. 2. All patients treated were males. 3. Results (a) Two cases exhibited no mental change. (b) One case definitely improved. (c) One case improved very considerably. (d) One case is too recent for any conclusions to be drawn, but is beginning to show signs of improvement. B.—Clinical study of a case of unusual diagnostic difficulty. By Dr. A. F. Grimbly, D.P.M. A case presenting some interesting clinical features was published in the Journal of Mental Science for April, 1925, under the title of “A Problem in Diagnosis.” The patient in question exhibited the picture of recurrent phases of pseudo-katatonic stupor of long duration, alternating with brief lucid intervals, which were characterized by a complete amnesia for events occurring during the stuporose period. The patient was demonstrated at a Clinical Meeting at the Maudsley Hospital, London, on November 27th, 1925. C.—Huntington's Chorea. By Dr. A. F. Grimbly, D.P.M., and Dr. Isabel G. H. Wilson, D.P.M. A Clinical and Pathological Report has been made on two cases of this disease, who died at this Institution. This will appear in the British Medical Journal. XVII.—From the Staffordshire County Mental Hospital, Stafford. Observations on the types of Blood-sugar curve found in different forms of Insanity. By Dr. K. K. Drury, M.C., and Dr. C. Farran-Ridge, D.P.M. The object of these investigations was to find out if carbo-hydrate metabolism is disordered in the insane. To this end they determined the sugar tolerance of over 100 patients (most of them acute recent admissions),