" THE BIRKBECK PANIC: A MANIACAL EXCITEMENT."

A Case of Maniacal Excitement Following Large Doses of Atebrin

a state of anxiety. He was uncontrollable, fretful and raving. He assaulted his father, mother and everybody in the house and was unmanageable. He had sudden attacks of panic in which he rushed blindly out into the open street, wandering aimlessly with ceaseless agitation. With much difficulty he was forced into the house by a number of people and locked up in a room. I couldn't examine the pat...

Maniacal Symptoms in Ascariasis

me one evening held between six men. They stated that, on the pyrexia slightly abating, the patient, who had been quiet in bed till then, began getting up and running about. Examination had to be done with the patient standing and held by the attendants and hence a thorough one was not possible. He was all the time trying to pull himself out of the grip of the attendants and was making the soun...

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The excitement of discovery.

I had the good luck to start research at the dawn of molecular biology when it was possible to ask fundamental questions about the nature of the nucleic acids and how information is transferred in living systems. The search for answers led me into many different areas, often with the question of how molecular structure leads to biological function. Early work in this period provided some of the...