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A Case of Moral Insanity with Pyromania

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

H. D. MacPhail
H. D. MacPhail*
Affiliation:
City of Newcastle Asylum, Gosforth
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The following are a few notes of an interesting case of a male patient, who was admitted here in July, 1910, after giving himself up to the police, because he had an uncontrollable desire to set fire to haystacks:

Type
Clinical Notes and Cases
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 57 , Issue 236 , January 1911 , pp. 124 - 126
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1911 

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