Case of Insanity

A Case of Malaria Simulating Confusional Insanity

Medical Officer, Sugar Estate, Finlay Fleming and Co., Sahmazv, Upper Burma. A Kachin boy, aged 15, working on this estate, by name La Noe, was brought to hospital on the 14th July, 1927, with a history of three days of fever. On admission he showed extreme prostration, a temperature of only 98.4?F., the pulse 144 per minute and feeble, and respiration rate 50. A certain degree of aphasia was n...

Insanity

A Case of Insanity Caused by Round Worms

By C. K. Svvaminath Iyer, b.a., m.b. A case has occurred in my practice which appears interesting, and I wish that you will be kind enough to publish it in your medical journal. Mr. S. was brought to me on the evening of the 2nd February, 1884, with the following history :? While attending to his work (goldsmith) he felt all at once that he was losing his senses ; symptoms of mania appeared soo...

pricing unemployment insurance : the case of iran

employees always concern about losing their job , or in other word , losing their income resources. for this purpose, every government requires strong system for covering these concerns. the unemployment insurance (ui) program’s can be used for achieving this goal. in this thesis, we price ui based on the insurance history of employee and the duration of being unemployed. we use the weibull dis...

Images of Insanity

An examination of the way the cinema has dealt with mental illness and the introspective fascination with which it has mirrored the spirit of experimentation and fragmentation of the last decade.