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Spirochætes in the Brain in General Paralysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

A. R. Grant
Affiliation:
County Mental Hospital, Whittingham, Preston, Lancashire

Extract

Following on the momentous discovery of the causative organism of syphilis by Schaudinn and Hoffmann, some eight years later Noguchi, working under the great difficulties of his own method, demonstrated the presence of spirochætes in the brain of a general paralytic.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1927 

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