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Observations on the Effect of Thyroid Feeding in some Forms of Insanity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Lewis C. Bruce*
Affiliation:
Royal Asylum, Edinburgh, Derby Borough Asylum

Extract

One of the best and latest descriptions of the functions of the thyroid gland is that by Victor Horsley.∗ This paper furnishes an account of recent work on the subject, and so fully details the results arrived at by other workers that I use it as my chief reference throughout this paper.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1895 

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