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CHEMICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF RATIONAL TREATMENT BY PRODUCTION OF KETOSIS

FRITZ B. TALBOT, M.D.; KENNETH M. METCALF, M.D.; MARGARET E. MORIARTY, B.S.

Am J Dis Child. 1927;33(2):218-225.

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The study of the treatment of epilepsy was undertaken by the children's service at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1921, and has been carried on through various stages to date. The first stage in this work consisted in the study of fasting epileptic children, and the determination of the clinical and the chemical results of such fasting. In all, twenty-four children fasted. Ten of these patients were studied chemically, and the reports on the results in the first eight appear in articles by Hoeffel and Moriarty¹ and Shaw and Moriarty,² while cases 9 and 10 are reported in table 1.

Clinically, the convulsive attacks stopped in all of these children during the fast. Although there was a temporary cessation of attacks following the fast, in all cases the attacks recurred after varying intervals of freedom.

The last two cases, recorded in table 1, showed essentially the same results . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BOSTON; LOS ANGELES; BOSTON

From the Children's Medical Department, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School.

Footnotes
Received for publication, Sept. 17, 1926.

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