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Reddick 1950 [51C11], p. 264, "25 female patients ranging in
age from 27 to 70 were studied for a period of 6 months. All
were chronically psychotic and had displayed mental abnormalities
for periods of from 3 to 32 years ... " These patients received
from 2 to 25 treatments total, initially 5cc, then increased to
10cc. In most instances a few drops of 25% citric acid was
"introduced through the needle into the syringe before the blood
was withdrawn."
AUTOHEMO THEORY 51C11
Reddick [51C11, 266-7] discussed the numerous theories of
several (27) investigators purporting to explain the action of
autohemotherapy.
AUTOHEMO, IMPETUS FOR USE IN MENTAL ILLNESS 51C11
[51C11] p. 264, Reddick asserted "Scattered reports in the
literature concerning the efficacy of autohemotherapy in
neurotropic virus diseases, such as herpes zoster 9which may,
incidentally, result in psychotic manifestations) prompted the
author to investigate the effects of this procedure upon a group
of chronic mental patients. ... I have yet to find any prior
report indicating that it has ever been used before in the
therapy of the psychoses."
[It may be noted, however, that the QCIM lists no less than 19
articles between 1927 and 1939 dealing with autohemotherapy in
psychiatry, mental illness, etc.]
BLOOD AND MIND IN HISTORY 51C11
Reddick [51C11] p.264 cites Hippocrates as having stated that
one of the causes of psychiatric disorders was an alteration of
the blood physiology of the brain. Subsequently, Celsus and
Aretaeus the Cappadocian, Galen in the 2nd century, and
Paracelsus and Alexis of Piemont several centuries later all
"attempted to correlate mental pathology and abnormal conditions
of the blood.
BENEFICIAL EFFECT OF OTHER DISEASES ON MENTAL ILLNESS 51C11
Reddick [51C11], p. 263 notes "it has frequently been observed
that intercurrent diseases have a beneficial effect on mental
illness."