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MAX LEVIN, M.D.

AMA Arch Gen Psychiatry 1960;2(4):429-433.

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Hallucinosis is the rarest of the bromide psychoses. It differs from delirium in that the patient is oriented. The object of this paper is to consider some aspects of this condition, especially its relationship to schizophrenia.

In an earlier article¹ figures were given from mental hospitals showing a total of 74 bromide psychoses in 2,273 first admissions. The breakdown showed 10 cases of simple intoxication, 48 of delirium, 13 of transistory schizophrenia, and 3 of hallucinosis. (These figures do not reflect the true incidence of simple bromide intoxication, for patients with this disorder seldom reach a mental hospital.)

Bromide delirium is well known and needs no comment. "Bromide schizophrenia" is the term applied to cases in which the intoxication precipitates a transitory hallucinatory-paranoid schizophrenia,² with features which are listed below. It has long been known that in patients with a schizoid personality toxemia . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
New York

From the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, the New York Medical College, Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospitals.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Oct. 21, 1959.

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