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Observations on General Paralysis of the Insane and on the Morbid Changes found on Post-mortem Examination in the Spinal Cord

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Robt Boyd
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The following observations are mainly the result of the author's experience during twenty years in the Somerset. County Asylum; many of them have appeared from time to time in his annual reports of that institution.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 17 , Issue 77 , April 1871 , pp. 1 - 24
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1871 

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* Mr. Gulliver, having had several specimens of spinal cord in cases of general paralysis submitted to him, states (M., vol. iv., p. 364.), “In December, 1850, I examined the lower part of the spinal cord carefully. The central softening is most distinct, having all the peculiar characters in its ultimate structure well known to belong to this affection. See Bennett's papers and my notes to your contributions. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, No. 156.” Google Scholar
* Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, vol. lviii., p. 36.Google Scholar
* Niemeyer's Practical Medicine, Eng. Trans., vol ii., p. 337.Google Scholar
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