Suggestions on Chorea and Allied Nervous Disorders
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investigation. The three diseases mentioned are usually classed together and under the beading of ? Diseases of the Nervous System." The present paper refers chiefly to cborea. A study of the literature of the disease, such as is possible in an isolated Indian station, modified by the observation of a choreic patient, has led to the following remarks. The patient under observation is a girl aged seven years. She was brought to the Regimental Hospital and found to be sufieriug from chorea ; the movements being general. She had been ailing for some time, and, about three weeks or a month before she was ad-
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