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Endocrine Factors in the Aetiology of Mongolism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Frederick Edward Kratter*
Affiliation:
Mental Deficiency University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Caswell Training School, Kinston, N.C., U.S.A.

Extract

In the course of the past few decades various controversial theories have been elaborated on the aetiology of mongolism in an attempt to solve the complexity of this interesting clinical entity.

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Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1960 

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