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As a presentation of the relation of sinusitis to the occurrence of mental disorder, this book is not convincing. If the author would only give us reliable control figures wemight listen, but until we know what proportion of patientsin general hospitals have sinusitis, as judged by the same standards, we shall not be convinced. We take serious objection to the statement that “Hysteria should be treated as amedical disease due to minute focal brain lesions, and not due solely to the imagination”. The prevalence of agglutinins to organisms of the typhoid-dysentery-foodpoisoning group amongst mental hospital admissions probably corresponds to their occurrence amongst the general population of a large city like Birmingham. The percentage in admissions from rural areas is very small.
Chronic Nasal Sinusitis and its Relation to Mental Disorder:
an Applied Pathology of Abnormal Conditions of the Nasal Sinuses found in Mental Hospital Patients. By F. A. Pickworth. Pp. xii + 156 + 5 plates. (London: H. K. Lewis and Co., Ltd., 1935.) 16s. net.
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Chronic Nasal Sinusitis and its Relation to Mental Disorder. Nature 137, 683 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137683b0
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