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Amentia and Dementia: a Clinico-Pathological Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Joseph Shaw Bolton
Joseph Shaw Bolton*
Affiliation:
University College, London; Lancaster County Asylum, Rainhill
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Examples of true hysteria are relatively rare in asylum populations, and in the present series of cases there are but six instances amongst the 728 patients, and all these are of the female sex. The writer has, however, during his asylum experience, seen more than one case of genuine hysteria in the male sex.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 52 , Issue 216 , January 1906 , pp. 1 - 28
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1906 
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