Encephalitis Lethargica followed by Myelitis
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Encephalitis Lethargica
There is an cspccial fascination to the clinician attaching to a disorder which presents no single distinctive feature, which may simulate, or be simulated by, a large number of other affections, and in the recognition of which cytological, bacteriological, and chemical procedures have hitherto failed to afford any positive assistance. I may remind you that in the spring of 1917 von Economo5 di...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 1926
ISSN: 0035-9157
DOI: 10.1177/003591572601900929