11
The percentage of partients to daily average strength use-
fully employed on various works of the hospital during the year
under report was 67.35 males and 59.18 females.
(iv) Drugs.—(1) Sulphur injections.— A mention was made
in the last year's report about this therapy. We tried sulphur
injections (1 per cent. solution of sulphur in olive oil) on 100
cases of different types of mental diseases over a period of
sixteen months. The temperature recorded at each injection was
103° to 104° and in some cases 105°. The average was 102°.
The following table shows the results of our experimental study
on 100 cases with sulphur injections :—
|
Number |
Types of mental diseases. |
Stationary |
Improved. |
Recovered, |
|
37 |
Manie depressive psychosis |
15 |
16 |
6 |
|
44 |
Dementia praecox ... |
20 |
20 |
4 |
|
2 |
Paranoia and paranoid reac- |
1 |
... |
1 |
|
2 |
Psycho-Neurosis ... |
... |
... |
2 |
|
1 |
Dissiminated schlerosis ... |
1 |
... |
... |
|
2 |
Encephalitis lethargica (Par- |
2 |
... |
... |
|
4 |
Stupors ... ... |
1 |
3 |
... |
|
8 |
Epileptic insanity ... |
8 |
... |
... |
|
Total ... |
48 |
39 |
13 |
|
|
= 100 |
It will be observed from the above table that 13 cases
recovered and were discharged home as cured. Thirty-nine cases
improved out of which 18 have since relapsed and 21 have still
maintained the improvement. Forty-eight cases did not show
any improvement. This shows that the results of our experi-
ment were quite encouraging and the sulphur injections, in my
opinion, are well worth a trial in all fresh admissions. It gives
better results in early cases of psychosis as well as in psycho-
neuroses, although its effect is not discouraging, even in chronic
cases.