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Patients received the ‘medically safe’ typhoid vaccine and Wassermann test, while the more controversial insulin coma therapy, ultraviolet ‘rays’, sterilisation, and abortion posed serious health risks. https://t.co/JCpKdd5zRd
Experimental Treatments: Women, Gender, and ‘Maternal Insanity’ in Victorian Psychiatric Institutions, 1920–36
Overview of attention for article published in Health & History: Journal of the Australian & New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine, January 2021