Word: bruetsch
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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Schizophrenia, or dementia praecox, is a major form of insanity, characterized in general by a morbid, seclusive withdrawal from life. Various organic deficiencies have been studied in connection with schizophrenia. Last week Dr. Walter L. Bruetsch of Indiana University Medical School reported another schizophrenic link -this time to rheumatic infection of the brain. Autopsying 84 schizophrenic patients who died at Central State Hospital in Indianapolis, Dr. Bruetsch found that one in twelve had had rheumatic infections of the heart which also involved the brain, which showed inflammation and cellular deterioration...
...treatment for brain rheumatism has been attempted. But Dr. Bruetsch considers the link important. Speaking before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, meeting at Indianapolis, he declared that if a cure for incipient brain rheumatism can be found, the prospect is that thousands of schizophrenics can be saved...
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