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Some Remarks on the Surgical Treatment of Insanity

1902; Royal College of Psychiatrists; Volume: 48; Issue: 203 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1192/bjp.48.203.687

2514-9946

Damer Harrison,

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Mr. President and Gentlemen,—While recognising the undoubted fact that what may be called ordinary insanity has no demonstrable lesion, the disorder being in the “subtle chemistry of the nerve-cells, and that no surgical procedure can correct aberration in tissue chemistry,” I still think there are a small number of cases, not only of traumatic but also of non-traumatic origin, in which surgical treatment may have beneficial results.