Sulphur Treatment in Mental Diseases

MAJOR, I.M.S. Medical Superintendent, Ranchi Indian Menial Hospital The use of sulphur injections in general paralysis of the insane was originally suggested by Dr. D. F. Tulunji of Paris in 1925, but Dr. Knucl Schroeder of Denmark two years later was the first to put it into practice. Schroeder advocated the use of a 1 per cent, solution of sulphur in olive oil which lie called ' Sulfosin Leo ' in cases of general paralysis and certain other mental disorders, and published his early results in the Lancet in 1929. Since then, a considerable number of English, continental and American observers have recorded their opinion on this therapy in various medical journals. Several papers have since appeared describing the results of this treatment in the columns of the Lancet and my first experimental study of 25 cases with this therapy was also published in the Lancet (1931). The present article now deals with an experimental study of sulphur injections tried at the Ranchi Indian Mental Hospital over a period of eighteen months on 100 cases suffering from the following mental diseases :? (?) Thirty-seven patients of manic-depressive psychosis group. (?) Forty-four patients of schizophrenic (dementia pra?cox) group. (c) Eight patients of epileptic psychosis