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The Brain-Liver Weight Ratio in Insanity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

G. W. T. H. Fleming*
Affiliation:
Dorset County Mental Hospital

Extract

The recent publication of two papers by Patterson and Weingrow (1, 2) on the brain-liver weight ratio in epilepsy suggested to the writer that an investigation of this ratio in non-epileptic psychoses as well as in epilepsy might prove interesting.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1930 

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References

1 Patterson, H. A., and Weingrow, S. M., “The Relation between Brain and Liver Weights in Epilepsy considered from the Standpoint of Onset and Duration in about 200 Cases,” Psychiat. Quarterly, 1928, ii, p. 171.Google Scholar
2 Idem , “The Brain-Liver Weight Ratio in Epilepsy,” Arch. of Neur. and Psychiat., 1929, xx, p. 804.Google Scholar
3 Myerson, A., Taunton State Hospital Papers, 1914, p. 4.Google Scholar
4 Idem., Journ. Nerv. and Ment. Dis., 1914, xli, p. 444.Google Scholar
5 Thom, D. A., ibid., 1916, xliii, p. 422.Google Scholar
6 Idem, Bull. Mass. Dept. Ment. Dis., 1917, vii, p. 123.Google Scholar
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