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The sedative action of “delvinal” sodium in disturbed psychiatric patients

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    “Delvinal” sodium is a new sedative which except in the most disturbed cases, is effective in relatively small doses and possesses a wide margin of safety.

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    Its action compares favorably with that of sodium amytal.

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    It is of value in disturbed psychotic patients because of the mild and relatively infrequent toxic effects which occur following its administration; because of the rapidity with which it induces a satisfactory length and degree of sedation and narcosis, even after continued administration; and because a comparatively slight degree of tolerance is developed.

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    The best therapeutic results are obtained in patients with psychoneuroses, manic-depressive manic or mixed psychoses, toxic or infectious psychoses—and, to a lesser extent, in patients with involutional melancholia.

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  1. Syracuse Psychopathic Hospital, Syracuse, N. Y.

    Eugene Davidoff M. D.

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Davidoff, E. The sedative action of “delvinal” sodium in disturbed psychiatric patients. Psych Quar 15, 370–379 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01563338

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