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The Factor of Hypoglycemia in the ætiology of Idiopathic Epilepsy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

R. L. Haviland Minchin
R. L. Haviland Minchin*
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(From the Pathological Laboratory of the Gloucestershire County Mental Hospitals)
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Extract

In the whole realm of medicine there are few more easily recognizable clinical syndromes than those which have been grouped together under the generic term of “epilepsy” or “epileptiform convulsions”; nevertheless, in spite of a vast amount of research work, the causation of these conditions is still imperfectly understood.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 79 , Issue 327 , October 1933 , pp. 659 - 676
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1933 

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