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The Mental Factor in Miners' Nystagmus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

H. Wilfred Eddison*
Affiliation:
Banstead Mental Hospital, Sutton, Surrey

Extract

Through the kind recommendation of the late Dr. W. H. R. Rivers I was appointed by the Medical Research Council to undertake a study of the psychoneurotic aspects of miners' nystagmus for six months in 1920–21, and subsequently given permission to publish my results.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1926

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