Dr. J. Tylor Fox
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Although Superintendent of Lingfield Colony for 30 years, Dr. Fox was always firm in his belief that colony life was only essential for a minority of patients, and even for them that it should only be regarded as a period for stabilization and drug adjustment. It was one of his greatest satisfactions that the last 10 or 15 years showed such startling changes in drug therapy. He often said that the number of epileptics whose condition did not improve sufficiently for them to return to normal fife should in future be a very small proportion of colony inhabitants.
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The Need for Community Care of Epileptics *Paper read at Public Health Congress, London, November, 1936.
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