A Comparison of Past and Present Treatments of Endogenous Depression

Abstract

In this investigation, the subjects were 180 female patients with pure endogenous depressions. These were divided into six different groups of 30 each. Of these groups, four were treated with nortriptyline, amitriptyline, imipramine and MAO-inhibitors respectively, and the results were compared with those obtained in the fifth group of patients who had been given electroplexy only, and finally with those obtained in the sixth group of patients who had received treatment before 1937.