HYOSCYAMINE IN INSANITY.

Insanity

On Hallucinations in Insanity

The hallucinations and illusions of melancholic monomania (lypemania of Esquirol) are characterized by fixity, intensity, and tenacity, as well as by expression, which distinguish them from those observed in acute delirium and mania. The integrity of the reasoning power, excepting always some obscured portions, "permits lis in most cases to analyse the phenomena and follow their modifications w...

Insanity in Switzerland

1-hyoscyamine in the long-term treatment of duodenal ulcer

A controlled single-blind trial has been carried out to determine the value of long-term anticholinergic therapy in duodenal ulcer. Of 106 male patients with symptomatic and radiologically proven duodenal ulcer admitted to the trial, 91 completed the study. Patients were divided randomly into three groups. They received either glycopyrronium, or 1-hyoscyamine in a sustained-release form, or ine...

Insanity plea: predicting not guilty by reason of insanity adjudications.

Using 35 variables and discriminant analysis procedures, it was found that, of 133 male defendants entering the insanity plea in Colorado, 87 percent were classified correctly into the disposition groups "adjudicated insane" and "convicted." Most positively related to an insanity adjudication were a psychiatric evaluation of insanity and a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Negatively related to the i...