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Cases of Self-Mutilation by the Insane
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 February 2018
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Injuries to self, or rather attempts at their infliction, are events of such frequent occurrence that in certain forms of mental disease their probability is indicated by the symptoms, and due precautions are usually adopted in asylums for their prevention, although no previous overt act may have given practical warning of the tendency.
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