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Dermographia in the Insane

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

A. W. H. Smith*
Affiliation:
South Yorkshire Mental Hospital, Sheffield
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” In a recent murder trial at Los Angeles, California, one William Edward Hickman was indicted for the murder of a young schoolgirl. At the trial an attempt, which appears to have been unsuccessful, was made to set up a defence of insanity (dementia praecox).

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Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1929 

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