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Ambulatory insulin therapy was given to a group of 52 unselected patients.
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The method of treatment was found to be readily applicable without enlargement of existing facilities.
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No contraindications to use of this therapy were found in any patient.
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The beneficial effects noted were: gain in weight, a definite sense of well being and amelioration in psychopathological trends with corresponding increase in outgoing interests and social aptitudes.
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Incident with the above effects, the patients were more accessible to psychotherapy.
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Therapeutic results were found to be independent of duration of illness, length of treatment and dosage of insulin.
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Sixty-five per cent of the patients improved; 25 per cent were able to leave the hospital; 10 per cent improved and then relapsed; and 25 per cent showed no improvement.
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This method seems particularly applicable to the treatment of dementia praecox, paranoid type.
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Read at the interhospital conference at Utica State Hospital, April 25, 1941.
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Tomlinson, P.J., Ozarin, L.D. Ambulatory insulin therapy. Psych Quar 16, 167–173 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01561254
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