CAMBRIDGE STATE HOSPITAL:
An Inventory of Its Research Files at the Minnesota Historical Society
Government Records
OVERVIEW
| Creator: | Cambridge State Hospital. | |
| Title: | Research Files. | |
| Dates: | 1927-1945. | |
| Language: | Materials in English. | |
| Abstract: | Correspondence, reports, statistics, and related materials documenting several studies done using hospital patients, including use of buttermilk and ketogenic (high fat content) diets in treatment of mental illness and epilepsy, research into the levels of magnesium and potassium in epileptics' blood, observation of the hospital's child patients, and charting of epileptic patients' seizures. Also a record of influenza inoculations given on January 2, 1941. | |
| Quantity: | 6 folders. | |
| Location: | See Detailed Description for shelf locations. |
ARRANGEMENT
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Availability:
The collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Cambridge State Hospital. Research Files. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
Accession Information:
Accession number: 471
Processing Information:
Catalog ID number: 001715071
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
| 127.B.17.2F | Barborka, Dr. Clifford J.: Ketogenic diet, 1927-1932. | ||||||||||
| Study by Mayo Clinic doctor of use of ketogenic diet (restricted, high fat content) in epilepsy treatment. | |||||||||||
| Hirschfelder, Dr. Arthur D., 1934-1939. | |||||||||||
| Work by Hirschfelder and Dr. Victor G. Haury, both University of Minnesota professors, in the study of the level of magnesium and potassium in epileptics' blood. | |||||||||||
| Influenza vaccine, 1941. | |||||||||||
| Record of inoculations. | |||||||||||
| McQuarrie, Dr. Irvine, 1931-1939. | |||||||||||
| Covers University of Minnesota pediatrics professor's observation of hospital children. | |||||||||||
| Rockwell, John G.: Buttermilk diet, 1929-1931. | |||||||||||
| Study by a University of Minnesota education psychology professor on the use of buttermilk to retard the loss of IQ levels in patients. | |||||||||||
| Wheeler, Dr. Theodora, 1930-1945. | |||||||||||
| Concerns a system of charting seizures of epileptic patients developed by the Rochester, Minnesota doctor. | |||||||||||
CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Buttermilk.
- Children with mental disabilities -- Research -- Minnesota.
- Diet in disease.
- Epilepsy -- Diet therapy -- Minnesota.
- Epilepsy in youth -- Research -- Minnesota.
- Epileptics -- Institutional care -- Minnesota.
- Epileptics -- Research -- Minnesota.
- Influenza -- Minnesota -- Prevention.
- Ketogenic diet.
- Mental retardation -- Diet therapy -- Minnesota.
- Mentally ill -- Minnesota.
- Observation (Psychology)
- People with mental disabilities -- Institutional care -- Minnesota.
- Psychiatric hospital patients -- Research -- Minnesota.
- Document Types:
- Medical records -- Minnesota.
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