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Severe Toxic Effects of Sodium Diphenyl Hydantoinate in Mentally Defective Epileptics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

B. A. MacGregor Williamson*
Affiliation:
Leavesden (L.C.C.) Hospital

Extract

The anti-convulsant value of sodium diphenyl hydantoinate (S.D.H.), marketed in America as Dilantin and in England as Epanutin, as found by Putnam and Merritt and introduced by them in the treatment of epilepsy has been amply confirmed by all subsequent reports, as it is by this one. Its clinical application, however, will, it is thought, be modified by reason of its toxic nature becoming more generally known.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1940 

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