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The Case of Mr. Kovish

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Humphry Osmond  and
Abram Hoffer
Humphry Osmond
Affiliation:
Saskatchewan Hospital, Weyburn, Saskatchewan
Abram Hoffer
Affiliation:
University Hospital, Saskatoon
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Nowadays when clinicians feel happier guided by methodologists and statisticians, only the brash or the sophisticated care to report single cases in detail. Yet medicine has in the past profited greatly by careful observations of this sort, and so good is this precedent that we have decided to defy fashion and report the affair of Mr. Kovish, one of those curious happenings which, we think, deserves a permanent record.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 104 , Issue 435 , April 1958 , pp. 302 - 325
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1958 

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