Eighty-two reports of cases of lipodystrophy were reviewed. Fifteen patients were markedly self-conscious about changes in their appearance. In 17 cases the family or friends were worried about the patient's health. In eight, nervous or mental symptoms ...

March 1928

TWO YEARS' EXPERIENCE WITH THE MALARIAL TREATMENT OF GENERAL PARALYSIS IN A STATE INSTITUTION

Max A. Bahr, and
W. L. Bruetsch

Pages:715–727
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.84.5.715

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(1) Of 100 general paralytic patients, treated with malaria, 25 were able to leave the hospital. Twelve patients improved to such a degree that they can be trusted in an useful occupation in the hospital. Forty patients are placed in the unimproved group. ...

March 1928

PSYCHIATRY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

William A. White

Pages:729–747
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.84.5.729

March 1928

ORGANIZATION IN VETERANS' BUREAU NEURO-PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS

William M. Dobson

Pages:749–758
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.84.5.749

March 1928

TENTATIVE CRITERIA OF MALIGNANCY IN SCHIZOPHRENIA

Harry Stack Sullivan

Pages:759–787
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.84.5.759

March 1928

THE APPLICATION OF STATISTICAL METHOD TO THE STUDY OF MENTAL DISEASE

Henry B. Elkind, and
Carl R. Doering

Pages:789–808
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.84.5.789

March 1928

SURVEY OF RETARDED CHILDREN IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF MASSACHUSETTS

Neil A. Dayton

Pages:809–835
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.84.5.809

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1. Heredity, as recorded in the 3553 school clinic examinations, reveals that feeble-mindedness is present in one or both parents in approximately 7 per cent of cases, mental disease in approximately 3 per cent of the cases, and epilepsy in 1 per cent of ...

March 1928