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Twelve Cases of “Korsakow's Disease” in Women

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

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Fifteen years ago the late Professor Korsakow described an assemblage of symptoms met with most frequently amongst chronic alcoholics. He claimed that they represented a distinct disease, which he termed polyneuritic psychosis, and later cerebropathia psychica toxæmica. The cardinal features of this affection, according to him, were, besides the polyneuritis, amnesia and pseudo-reminiscence. We in England, perhaps wisely, are slow to accept new diseases; but as now a large amount of literature has accumulated around “Korsakow's disease” from physicians in all parts of Europe, it may be of interest to give an account of twelve cases among women which I have met with presenting the symptoms of this affection.

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Clinical Notes and Cases
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1903 

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References

Serge Soukhanoff, and Andre Boutenko, , “A Study of Korsakoff's Disease,” Journal of Mental Pathology, vol. 4, 1903, pp. 133.Google Scholar
Sydney, J. Cole, “On Changes in the Central Nervous System in the Neuritic Disorders of Chronic Alcoholism,” Brain, vol. 25, 1902, pp. 326363.Google Scholar
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