Variation in Agglutinin Formation in Mental Hospital Patients and Its Probable Relation to Focal Sepsis

1928 ◽  
Vol 74 (307) ◽  
pp. 709-719
Author(s):  
F. A. Pickworth
Keyword(s):  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Pathological Process ◽  
Natural Phenomenon ◽  
Protein Substance ◽  
Hospital Patients ◽  
Number Of Individuals ◽  
Probable Relation

It is well known that injection of protein substance into the blood causes the appearance in the blood of antibodies to the protein. Injection of bacteria is followed by the appearance of several kinds of antibodies, and the substances which produce “clumping” constitute one, or rather two, of these antibodies. The appearance of agglutinins in the blood following vaccination or infection has been shown to occur regularly in such a large number of individuals, and in animals, that there can be no doubt that this production of antibodies is a natural phenomenon connected with successful resistance to the deleterious effects of the organisms. Non-production or abnormalities in the production of agglutinins following injection of bacteria represents a pathological process probably of the nature of sepsis.

scholarly journals A Trial of Discharge and Aftercare of Long-stay Mental Hospital Patients

BMJ ◽  
1960 ◽  
Vol 2 (5196) ◽  
pp. 436-438
Author(s):  
J. C. N. Tibbits ◽  
W. B. Harbert
Keyword(s):  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Hospital Patients

The Psychiatric Differentiation of Senility and Arteriosclerosis

1972 ◽  
Vol 120 (556) ◽  
pp. 321-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. P. Birkett
Keyword(s):  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Brain Disease ◽  
The Other ◽  
Positive Evidence ◽  
Brain Infarcts ◽  
Hospital Patients ◽  
Mental Symptoms ◽  
Senile Brain

This study compares the mental symptoms of two groups of aged mental hospital patients. One group had senile brain disease but no brain infarcts. The other group had brain infarcts but no positive evidence of senile brain disease.

Preliminary Tuberculosis Survey in a Mental Hospital

1946 ◽  
Vol 92 (386) ◽  
pp. 96-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donal F. Early
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Psychiatric Treatment ◽  
Hospital Staff ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mental Hospitals ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
Hospital Patients ◽  
Disproportionate Number

The problem of tuberculosis amongst mental hospital patients is of importance from both the psychiatric and public health point of view. Most of the active methods of psychiatric treatment must be abandoned or discontinued when physical illness intervenes. The problem is even more far-reaching from the standpoint of public health. Wingfield, Trail, Banks and McDougall (1942) have estimated that there is probably a reservoir of 250,000 infectious cases recognized and unrecognized in England, Scotland and Wales, and several authors have pointed out that mental hospitals contribute a disproportionate number to this reservoir. Modern methods of mental hospital administration with parole and leave privileges applied to the maximum number of patients lend importance to the public health aspect, not only the patients themselves and hospital staff being menaced, but also patients' visitors and relatives and other contacts outside hospital. The incidence of tuberculosis in mental hospitals has been variously estimated at 5 to 10 times and the mortality in peace-time 8 or 9 times that of the general population. These figures are sufficient to justify all efforts to bring the problem under control.

Relation of Expressed Attitudes to Improvement in Functional Psychotics

1970 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 275-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Levlne ◽  
J. Richard Wittenborn
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Hospital Patients

The attitudes of a sample of 120 mental hospital patients toward themselves, their future, their symptoms and their hospitalization were correlated with 6 measures of improvement. It was found that the attitudes expressed by the patients were relevant for predicting the outcome of their mental disorder.

Blacklisting Mental Hospital Patients

1970 ◽  
Vol 21 (8) ◽  
pp. 269-271
Author(s):  
Vernon D. Patch
Keyword(s):  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Hospital Patients
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