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Chronic Sepsis as a Cause of Mental Disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

William Hunter
William Hunter*
Affiliation:
London Fever Hospital and to Charing Cross Hospital
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The part played by sepsis in producing nervous and mental disorders of all degrees of severity and the degree to which these can be prevented, checked, or controlled by antisepsis are singularly opportune subjects for discussion on an occasion marking the centenary of the birth of Lister. We are not only commemorating past achievement, but inaugurating a new campaign against sepsis in one of the greatest domains of medical diseases—that which bears the ill-omened title of insanity.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 73 , Issue 303 , October 1927 , pp. 549 - 563
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1927 

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