MENTAL PATIENTS BEING CURED
Researches in Britain PUT TO SLEEP FOR TEN TO FOURTEEN DAYS By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received August 22, 5.5 p.m.) London, August 21. The “News-Chronicle” says that as a result of researches at the Cardiff Mental Hospital, Whitchurch, mental patients are being put to sleep for 10 to 14 days by an injection of narcotics and are awaking cured. The discovery of the right narcotic and the correct quantity resulted from years of long experiment, the difficulty being to soothe the brain without poisoning the body. This was overcome by giving the patients glucose and injecting insulin simultaneously with the narcotic. Dr. J. H. Quastel, research director, says that the investigations revealed that the body itself produces poisons which disturb nerve cells and may lead to mental disorder.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 280, 23 August 1934, Page 9
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131MENTAL PATIENTS BEING CURED Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 280, 23 August 1934, Page 9
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