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Summary The clinical and laboratory results of 68 patients with general paralysis treated by radiothermy are compared with a similar number of patients with general paralysis treated by malaria. The two groups were as similarly constituted as could reasonably be expected.Improvement from the clinical standpoint was found to be about the same in each series of 68 patients. It was in the neighborhood of 53 per cent for each group. The clinical remission, percentage was 17.6 in the group treated by radiothermy as compared with 19.1 in the malarial-treated group. The relatively large proportion of women in these related groups seems to account for the comparatively low remission rates.The results from the laboratory standpoint are quite evidently inferior to those commonly observed in malarial-treated patients.From the Clinical Department of the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Hospital, New York, N. Y. |
