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Allan McLane Hamilton, MD (1848-1919), published Types of Insanity, an Illustrated Guide in the Physical Diagnosis of Mental Disease, a descriptive guide to the diagnosis of
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During the 19th century, patients undergoing anesthesia for surgical and dental procedures were at risk of being given hypoxic or dilute nitrous oxide on four separate occasions. Primary and secondary saturation during surgery could account for two administrations of 100% nitrous-oxide anesthesia, while both diagnostic and therapeutic doses of dilu...
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... the globe and, in the process, reshaped the care of the mentally ill in America's insane asylums. 1 The range of possible etiologies of mental disorder shifted from social and moral causes to biologic and pathoanatomic explanations. 1 At the same time, public preoccupation with organic and non-organic causes of mental disorders increased.(See Fig. 1.) Postanesthesia hypoxic brain injury was linked to mental illness by psychiatrists, dentists, and anesthetists alike. Patients who presented with behavioral disturbances after hypoxic anesthetics accounted for a significant minority of patients occupying a growing number of asylums in the United States. Moreover, dental and surgical ...
