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Some Observations on Leucotomy and Investigations by Pneumoencephalography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

J. F. Donovan
Affiliation:
From Hurstwood Park Hospital Neuropsychiatric Unit, Hayward's Heath, Sussex
A. J. Galbraith
Affiliation:
From Hurstwood Park Hospital Neuropsychiatric Unit, Hayward's Heath, Sussex
Harvey Jackson
Affiliation:
From Hurstwood Park Hospital Neuropsychiatric Unit, Hayward's Heath, Sussex
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Leucotomy studies are now commonplace and this preliminary report on the clinical aspects of our series has probably little to add to existing ideas on the subject. Neither the case material nor our initial approach to the problem differ fundamentally from the observations expressed by various workers at a meeting held at the Royal Society of Medicine on 9 April, 1946.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1949 

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