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The Rôle of Syphilis in Mental Deficiency and Epilepsy: A Review of 205 Cases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Kate Fraser
Affiliation:
Govan School Board, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow
H. Ferguson Watson
Affiliation:
Royal Hospital for Sick Children's Dispensary, Glasgow, and Renfrew District Asylum, Dykebar, Paisley.—(From the Pathological Laboratories of the University and Western Infirmary, Glasgow.)
H.M. Prison
Affiliation:
Royal Hospital for Sick Children's Dispensary, Glasgow, and Renfrew District Asylum, Dykebar, Paisley.—(From the Pathological Laboratories of the University and Western Infirmary, Glasgow.)

Extract

Few authorities on mental disease are agreed as to the part played by syphilis in causing mental deficiency. Similarly, the cause of epilepsy, although it is one of the oldest known diseases, has remained undetermined by the methods of investigation hitherto employed.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1913 

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