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Encephalitis Lethargica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Thomas Saxty Good*
Affiliation:
Clinic for Nervous Disorders, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford
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Encephalitis, a disease to be defined as any non-suppurative inflammation of the brain, has been recognized for many years. Crookshank (I) points out that clinical occurrences of the nature of what we now ascribe to encephalo-myelitis and encephalo meningitis have been recorded for the last 450 years.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1925 

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