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Fatigue and Fatigability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

H. G. Kennedy
H. G. Kennedy*
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The Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF
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Abstract

“One spring, towards the end of March, I happened to be in Rome, and, hearing that the migration of the quails had begun, I went down to Palo on the sea coast in order to ascertain whether these birds, after their journey from Africa, showed any of the phenomena of fatigue.”

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 153 , Issue 1 , July 1988 , pp. 1 - 5
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1988 

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