G JAECKLE MD

In 1973, Theron Randolph presented a History of Ecologic Mental Illness in the Annual Review of Allergy. His account started with Savage, an English psychiatrist, who wrote in 1884 of several cases of recurrent attacks of spasmodic asthma alternating with insanity. In the 1890's, three streams of theories developed: behaviorism (Pavlov), psychoanalysis (Freud), and the environment (Hare). Hare's two-volume treatise in 1905 recorded the effect of foods on behavior. He observed that many chronically ill patients benefited from one of two diets, either avoidance of sugar, starches, and alcohol or the minimization of protein intake. In 1922, Shannon was apparently the first to report that nervousness followed the ingestion of foods, particularly wheat, in infants and children. In 1925, Duke widened the range of allergic symptoms to include headaches to bewilderment, resembling delirium, from foods and simple chemicals. Coca observed that all cases of dementia praecox (schizophrenia)..

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