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VII. EFFECTS OF THE INTRAVENOUS INJECTION OF HYPERTONIC SOLUTIONS OF DEXTROSE

JULES H. MASSERMAN, M.D.

Arch Neurol Psychiatry. 1936;35(2):296-303.

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In a previous article of this series¹ it was shown that if after the rapid removal of 35 cc. or more of cerebrospinal fluid from a human subject the pressure of the fluid was allowed to become restored spontaneously to normal and then the same amount of fluid was again drained, the fall in cerebrospinal fluid pressure effected by the second drainage fairly consistently exceeded that produced by the first. This phenomenon was interpreted to indicate that in the interval of time between the first and the second drainage the volume of the ventriculomeningeal spaces had diminished, but whether the diminution was the result of cerebrospinal vascular congestion alone or was in part attributable also to neuraxial edema could not be determined from the data then at hand. In a subsequent report² evidence was presented to indicate that hypertonic solutions of dextrose when injected intravenously in sufficient amount . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Assistant in Psychiatry, University of Chicago Clinics CHICAGO

From the Baltimore City Hospital and the Phipps Psychiatric Clinic, Baltimore.