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The Mental Factor in Miners' Nystagmus
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 February 2018
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Through the kind recommendation of the late Dr. W. H. R. Rivers I was appointed by the Medical Research Council to undertake a study of the psychoneurotic aspects of miners' nystagmus for six months in 1920–21, and subsequently given permission to publish my results.
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