Word: dementia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legend, not unkind, was merely a paraphrase of able Dr. Walter Freeman's recommendation of oxygen to clear the wits of dementia praecox patients. In the present circumstances, TIME'S Medicine Editor will take the dose...
Once a person is committed to an insane asylum, his chances of getting out are small. The more he insists that he is sane, the more suspicion he attracts to himself. The struggle to convince can arouse actual dementia.* There are no precise gauges of mental normality...
Thyroids & Insanity. One of five persons confined to U. S. hospitals is there for dementia praecox. Some cases might be due, surmised Professor Roy Graham Hoskins of Harvard, to thyroid irregularities. He went to the State Hospital at Worcester, Mass, and with the help of F. H. Sleeper selected 18 dementia praecox patients who probably had poor thyroids. They fed these patients thyroid extract, were not surprised to find 14, or 88%, decidedly improved, five of them sufficiently so to be released and trusted in the general community...
...Dementia Praecox. That extreme condition of dull wits and sluggish brain called dementia praecox (adolescent insanity) affects so many people in the U. S. that all the hospitals of the country could not contain them. Roy Graham Hoskins of Boston counted 140,000 in mental hospitals alone. The need for solution of the dementia praecox problem "is exigent," yet it "is being grossly neglected." Signs of this mental disease are constant melancholy and self-absorption. Bad cases behave like very young, helpless children...