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Observations on Puerperal Insanity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Robert Boyd
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In the Somerset County Lunatic Asylum, during twenty years, ending 1st March, 1868, sixty-three cases of puerperal insanity came under my care, being 4·6 per cent of females admitted in that period, not including re-admissions. I have drawn up a summary of these cases to lay before the present meeting of the Medico-Psychological Association.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 16 , Issue 74 , July 1870, pp. 153 - 165
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1870 

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∗ One transferred to another asylum, not improved. Google Scholar

∗ In Salpétrière following month, 15, and two after two years. About two-thirds of the recoveries took place within the first six months. Google Scholar

∗ According to my tables, in females under 40 years of age, the average cir cumference of the head is stated to be 21·2 inches, the antero-posterior measure ment 12·9, and the transverse 13; the weight of the brain or encephalon being, at the same age, 43·8 ounces. Google Scholar

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