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Lumbar Puncture and the Cerebro-Spinal Fluid in 2,000 Cases of Mental Deficiency

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

K. C. L. Paddle
K. C. L. Paddle*
Affiliation:
Caterham Mental Hospital
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Serological tests on the blood of mental defectives have been, both here and in other countries, the subject of numerous investigations, but the cerebrospinal fluids of the entire population of a large mental defective institution have never, as far as I am aware, been systematically examined. This paper deals with the results of such an investigation in 2,000 cases of mental deficiency of both sexes, all ages and grades, patients at Caterham Mental Hospital during the last four years, and with the complications following lumbar puncture.

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Research Article
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 80 , Issue 331 , October 1934 , pp. 674 - 683
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1934 

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† 1,927 of these cases have already been reviewed. The first part of this work dealing with 402 children was published in the British Journal of Children's Diseases (Oct. to Dec, 1933). The second part, dealing with 1,598 adults, 1,525 of whom had both blood and cerebro-spinal fluid examined, is now in the hands of the Editors of the Journal of Neurology and Psychopathology, to whom i am indebted for kind permission to quote items concerning the cerebrospinal fluid of these cases.Google Scholar
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