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L. Acidophilus in patients with mental disease

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Within the limitations of the material, 208 subjects—and the methods under consideration, it has been found that:

  1. 1.

    Of 187 patients with mental disease 62 per cent harboredL. acidophilus. The incidence of this organism was slightly higher in the functional than in the organic syndromes.

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    Of 21 non-psychotic adults, about one-half showedL. acidophilus.

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    There is no correlation between constipation and absence ofL. acidophilus in fecal specimens.L. acidophilus was found in two-thirds of the constipated patients with mental disease and in the same proportion of the non-constipated patients.

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    Shera's2 conclusion that constipation in the mentally diseased can be ascribed to a deficiency ofL. acidophilus is invalid.

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  1. Kopeloff, N. Lactobacillus Acidophilus. Williams and Wilkins, 1926.

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  1. Department of Bacteriology, Psychiatric Institute and Hospital, New York

    Nicholas Kopeloff Ph. D., N. Blackman B. S. & B. McGinn B. A.

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Kopeloff, N., Blackman, N. & McGinn, B. L. Acidophilus in patients with mental disease. Psych Quar 5, 663–668 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01583942

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