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A Case of Microcephalic Imbecility, with Remarks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

G. E. Shuttleworth*
Affiliation:
Royal Albert Asylum, Lancaster

Extract

The following account of a case of microcephalic imbecility, for three years under observation in the Royal Albert Asylum, Lancaster, may be of interest, both on account of the family history and of certain abnormalities in the structure of the brain and heart observed at the autopsy.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1878 

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References

* “Die Störungen der Sprache : Versuch einer Pathologie der Sprache,” von Dr. Adolf Kussmaul. Leipzig : 1877, p. 201. Google Scholar

Ireland,” Idiocy and Imbecility,'· p. 108. t Op. Cit., p. 118. Google Scholar

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