Colorado Psychopathic Hospital Research Articles

The Teaching of Psychiatry in Law Schools

Dr. Macdonald is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Assistant Medical Director of the Colorado Psychopathic Hospital. As consulting psychiatrist to the District Courts of Colorado, he has gained considerable experience in forensic psychiatry. He is the author of Psychiatry and the Criminal. Henry Weihofen, Professor of Law in the University of New Mexico since 1949, and member of the committee on legal education in the Albuquerque Bar Association, was formerly with the faculty of law in the Colorado State University. He was head of the Appellate Review Section of the War Labor Board, and later attorney for U. S. defense in the Court of Claims during the War years. In 1955 Professor Weihofen received the Isaac Ray Award of the American Psychiatric Association. Lectures which he delivered in that connection are published (1956) under the title, The Urge to Punish.-EDITOR.

Psychiatric Liaison Work: A Twelve Year Survey

Associate Director, Psychiatric Liaison Department, Colorado Psychopathic Hospital, Denver, Colorado

A REVIEW OF THE DRASTIC SHOCK THERAPIES IN THE TREATMENT OF THE PSYCHOSES

Article1 March 1943A REVIEW OF THE DRASTIC SHOCK THERAPIES IN THE TREATMENT OF THE PSYCHOSESFRANKLIN G. EBAUGH, M.D., F.A.C.P.FRANKLIN G. EBAUGH, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-18-3-279 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptDuring the past decade we have seen progressive changes in medical education and practice which have led to closer relationships between psychiatry and general medicine. We now accept psychiatry as that part of medicine which deals with the pathology and therapy of the person, instead of thinking of it as an isolated specialty dealing with advanced psychopathological disorders usually already admitted to institutions for treatment in the later stages of development when therapy is most difficult, more prolonged and less effective. Through this breakdown of the isolation of psychiatric medicine from basic general medicine we are now beginning to see...Bibliography1. JESSNERRYAN LVG: Shock treatment in psychiatry, 1941, Grune and Stratton, New York. Google Scholar2. U. S. Public Health Service Shock Survey, 1941. Google Scholar3. FROSTIG JP: Clinical observations in insulin treatment in schizophrenia: preliminary report, Am. Jr. Psychiat., 1940, xcvi, 1167-1190. CrossrefGoogle Scholar4. BRILLBINZILEY HRF: Involuntary eye movements—a criterion of depth of stages of insulin coma, Am. Jr. Psychiat., 1941, xcvi, 177-181. Google Scholar5. KATZENELBOGEN S: Pharmacological shock therapy, Chapter LI, Blumer's System for Practice of Medicine. Google Scholar6. ROSSMALZBERG JRB: A review of the results of the pharmacological shock therapy and the metrazol convulsive therapy in New York state, Am. Jr. Psychiat., 1939, xcvi, 297-316. CrossrefGoogle Scholar7. ROSSROSSMANCLINESCHWOERNMALZBERG JRJMWBCJB: A two year follow up study from the New York state hospitals with some recommendations for the future, Am. Jr. Psychiat., 1941, xcvii, 1007-1023. CrossrefGoogle Scholar8. CHENEYCLOW COHE: Prognostic factors in insulin shock therapy, Am. Jr. Psychiat., 1941, xcvii, 1029-1039. CrossrefGoogle Scholar9. RYMERBENJAMINEBAUGH CAJDFG: The hypoglycemic treatment of schizophrenia. A preliminary report, with particular reference to the qualitative study of remissions, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1937, cix, 1249-1251. CrossrefGoogle Scholar10. PIOTROWSKI Z: A simple experimental device for prediction of the outcome of insulin treatment in schizophrenia, Psychiat. Quart., 1940, xiv, 267-273. CrossrefGoogle Scholar11. BENNETT AE: Curare: A preventive of traumatic complications in convulsive shock therapy, Am. Jr. Psychiat., 1941, xcvii, 1040-1060. CrossrefGoogle Scholar12. WHITEHEADNEUBUERGERRUTLEDGESILCOTT RWKTEKWL: Pharmacologic and pathologic effects of repeated convulsant doses of metrazol, Am. Jr. Med. Sci., 1940, cxcix, 352-359. CrossrefGoogle Scholar13. CERLETTIBINI VL: L'elettroshock, Arch. gen. di neurol. e. psichiat., 1938, xix, 266-268. Google Scholar14. WHITEHEADNEUBUERGERRUTLEDGEEBAUGH RWKTEKFG: Pathologic changes in brains of dogs given repeated electric shocks, to be published in Am. Jr. Med. Sci. Google Scholar15. U. S. Public Health Service Shock Therapy. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Denver, Colorado*Morning lecture before the American College of Physicians meeting, St. Paul, Minnesota, April 24, 1942.From the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Colorado Psychopathic Hospital. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byUndoing Descartes: integrating diabetes care for those with mental illnessBibliographyEmprêgo do curare em convulsoterapiaChapter VII: Methods, Technics, and Instruments of Mental Hygiene Diagnosis and Therapy 1 March 1943Volume 18, Issue 3Page: 279-296KeywordsHospital medicineMedical educationPsychosesShock Issue Published: 1 March 1943 PDF downloadLoading ...

The Care of the Psychiatric Patient in General Hospitals

Journal Article The Care of the Psychiatric Patient in General Hospitals Get access The Care Of The Psychiatric Patient In General Hospitals. By Franklin G. Ebaugh, M. D., Director, Colorado Psychopathic Hospital, Denver. Official Bulletin No. 207. Cloth. Price, $1. Pp. 79. Chicago: American Hospital Association, 1940. Physical Therapy, Volume 22, Issue 1, January 1942, Page 59, https://doi.org/10.1093/ptj/22.1.59 Published: 01 January 1942

BROMIDE INTOXICATION

In recent years bromide intoxication has become a relatively common condition. Hanes and Yates1reported 400 cases which occurred at Duke Hospital in six and one half years. Wagner and Bunbury2examined the blood of 1,000 consecutive patients admitted to the Colorado Psychopathic Hospital and found bromide in the serum of seventy-seven. Many reports have come from all parts of this country. However, physicians still frequently fail to recognize the rather typical toxic states produced by bromide. It therefore seemed of interest to discuss again the cause, symptoms, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of bromide intoxication and to report fifteen additional cases. Only those patients were included who had an initial blood bromide content above 150 mg. per hundred cubic centimeters. To determine the blood bromide content the method of Wuth3was used: Ten cc. of blood was drawn from the vein and allowed to coagulate. To 4

Statistical Survey of Patients from Weld County Treated at the Colorado Psychopathic Hospital

Statistical Survey of Patients from Weld County Treated at the Colorado Psychopathic Hospital

The Training of X-ray Technicians

THIRTY years ago it required the combined efforts of a professional photographer, a good electrician, and a trained physicist to produce satisfactory roentgenograms; and the three working together could not produce even diagnostic plates consistently. The improvement and simplification of X-ray apparatus, the Coolidge tube and duplitized film with standard factors of development, have so simplified the technical end of roentgenology that a person can be taught in a few hours to make X-ray exposures and to develop films. However, the acquiring of a working knowledge of anatomy, a satisfactory medical vocabulary, familiarity with the ordinary nursing procedures, and practical experience are about as difficult of acquisition as they were in 1900. Is it desirable to employ trained technicians in X-ray work, or shall we use those who know only enough to push a lever when a bell rings? Do roentgenologists want a few robots that buzz for the “big boss.” when the filament does not light or some minor adjustment is not made; or do they want intelligent, trained assistants? The first step in the training of X-ray technicians is the selection of satisfactory students, and this selection often proves to be the most difficult single factor. The usual procedure at the Colorado General Hospital is to have a personal interview with each applicant. Only women who are at least high school graduates are even considered for acceptance. They are asked the routine questions as to their social status—married or single, widowed or divorced, age, educational qualifications, year of graduation from school, what they have done since, and why they wish to take up X-ray work. Answers are written down as they are given. When these are compiled, we occasionally find an applicant graduated from high school at ten years of age, or younger—honesty is one of the requirements for admission to the course. Students have been accepted as young as sixteen and as old as forty-six, but most of them have been in the early twenties. If the personal interview is satisfactory, the young woman is advised to make a written application. These applications are kept on file and, when a vacancy occurs, are examined and the best one is selected. Five girls are kept in training; every two or three months one completes the course, at which time a new student is received. The girl selected is given a mental test at the Colorado Psychopathic Hospital and the I.Q. (intelligence quotient) must be 100 or over. A high school diploma means little, but it has been found that the quality of the students' work follows closely their I.Q. rating. When finally accepted the technician-in-training signs and is given a signed contract. This contract provides: 1. A course of training for twelve full calendar months. 2. That for services rendered students are to receive instruction, experience, and training in the X-ray Department.

INCIDENCE OF BROMIDE INTOXICATION AMONG PSYCHOTIC PATIENTS

For some time we have been impressed by the number of patients admitted to the Colorado Psychopathic Hospital showing symptoms of a frank delirium, or patients suffering from some major psychosis with evidence of toxic components. In some cases the source of the toxin could not be determined, but in others, either at the time of admission or after their recovery, we were able to obtain a history that they had taken large quantities of bromides or some other sedative. Frequently in the literature attention has been called to the fact that patients develop a toxic delirium following the long continued or excessive dosage of bromides. A thorough review of the literature on this subject has recently been given by Dr. Oscar Diethelm. 1 One writer 2 reports bromide intoxication in an entire family consisting of five adults, two small children and one nursing child, when sodium bromide was accidentally

CALCIFICATIONS IN THE CHOROID PLEXUS WITH CONSIDERATION OF THEIR SIGNIFICANCE

Last summer, one of us (C. W.) observed at the Colorado Psychopathic Hospital, on the service of Dr. Franklin Ebaugh, the case of a microcephalic idiot who on roentgen examination showed extraordinary calcification in the choroid plexuses. This case is being reported by Dr. Fox and one of us (C. W.). Through the kindness of Dr. Ebaugh, the patient was sent to St. Louis for study. REPORT OF CASE The patient, aged 18, was a microcephalic idiot (figs. 1 and 2) with moderate intelligence, and would be classed as a high grade imbecile; he had spadelike fingers, prominent teeth and a profuse growth of hair on the body. Both femurs and humeri were longer than they should have been for his height. This was the only abnormality in the bony framework that was noted aside from that of the head. Neurologically, the examination gave negative results. The excessive growth of

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Practical Clinical Psychiatry for Students and Practitioners.By Edward A. Strecker, A. M., M. D., Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases, Jefferson Medical College; Medical Director, Pennsylvania Hospital, Department for Mental and Nervous Diseases; and Franklin G. Ebaugh, A. B., M. D., Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado; Director, Colorado Psychopathic Hospital; Foreword by Charles W. Burr, B. S., M. D.,

<i>Practical Clinical Psychiatry for Students and Practitioners.</i>By Edward A. Strecker, A. M., M. D., Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases, Jefferson Medical College; Medical Director, Pennsylvania Hospital, Department for Mental and Nervous Diseases; and Franklin G. Ebaugh, A. B., M. D., Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado; Director, Colorado Psychopathic Hospital; Foreword by Charles W. Burr, B. S., M. D.,