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Acute Porphyria Presenting with Mental Symptoms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

E. H. Hare
E. H. Hare*
Affiliation:
Bristol Mental Hospitals
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Acute porphyria is a rare disease in this country. Although a typical case was described in the Journal of Mental Science over 50 years ago (Campbell, 1898), Petrie (1948) could find only three cases reported in Britain between 1940 and 1948; since then at least six more cases have been reported. The disease is relatively common in Scandinavia and, to a less extent, in North America—a distribution for which Discombe (1948) has suggested an explanation in terms of relative emigration rates.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 99 , Issue 414 , January 1953 , pp. 144 - 147
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1953 

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