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A Case of Cerebral Meningitis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

G. Mackenzie Bacon*
Affiliation:
Cambridgeshire Lunatic Asylum, Fulbourne

Extract

The subjoined case owes its chief interest to the question of diagnosis involved in its consideration. The outline of the case is as follows:—

William G., set. 57, single, labourer, admitted into the Cambs. Asylum, Aug. 10, 1868. He was said to have had a previous attack of insanity at the age of 22, but to have kept well till within a few days of his admission, when he became noisy and excited. It was also stated that he had had four epileptic fits, but at long intervals.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1869 

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