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The Occurrence of Organisms in the Blood and Cerebrospinal Fluid in Mental Diseases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Winifred Muirhead
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In the mass of conflicting evidence which has accumulated in recent years as to whether organisms are the exciting factor in the production of certain insanities, I have found it difficult to discriminate between cause and effect. Is the organism or group of organisms the specific pathogenesis of certain insanities or merely a bacteræmia secondary to the psychosis?

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 56 , Issue 232 , January 1910 , pp. 98 - 109
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1910 

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(1) “Morison Lectures” and others, Review of Neurology and Psychiatry, 1906.Google Scholar
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