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The Sensitivity of the Sympathetic Nervous System to Adrenalin in Some Cases of Mental Disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Wm. McWilliam*
Affiliation:
Inverness District Asylum
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Last summer we had admitted to our hospital a case of the involution period in the female, which presented such notable features from the clinical aspect that I was stimulated to the discovery of the “whys” and “wherefores” it presented. An involution case, I found myself confronted with certain problems of an endocrinological nature, which are the experience of all psychiatrists.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1925 

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