LONG SECTION BLOOD SUGAR TOLERANCE STUDY IN A CASE OF DEPRESSION

Abstract

In recent years, a number of studies¹have been published indicating the occurrence of a certain apparently rather typical disturbance of carbohydrate metabolism in depressions of the manic-depressive type. In several instances, it has been suggested that such a disturbance²is seemingly phasic or concomitant with the mental difficulty, and disappears when the patient recovers from the latter. This question is of significance, as it may have important bearing on the concept or theory of the psychosis and suggests an important implication of the so-called physiologic level, in relation to what might be casually dismissed as simply a mental condition. In view of this, we felt that it might prove of some interest to report a complete study of such a case from this standpoint in the hope that it might be of some assistance in establishing in fact the suggestion already made in the literature. The case