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On the Non-Specific Nature of “General Paralysis of the Insane.”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

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Sirs,—I have read with much interest Dr. Farrar's article on “General Paralysis” (“Journal of Mental Science,” July 1895). His conclusion, that “general paralysis” is in no sense a specific disease, is identical with that at which I arrived after some years' study of a very large number of cases in the Portsmouth Borough Asylum, where, after spending much time and labour in trying to arrange them as I may say in duly labelled pigeon-holes, I began to see that “it was all a striving, and a striving, and an ending in nothing.”

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Part IV.—Notes and News
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