A group of thirty-eight mothers with an onset of schizophrenia related to gestation and delivery of a child was studied to see if the sex determines whether the onset would be during the first trimester or the puerperium, if this would be particularly true of ‘process’ schizophrenics and whether the sex of subsequent children would lead to subsequent remissions or exacerbations.
No difference was found in the influence of fetal sex on precipitation, remission or exacerbation of either ‘process’ or ‘reactive’ schizophrenia.
A tendency to have subsequent children either all male or all female was noted and discussed.
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