The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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Page 99
... epilepsy merely on this basis , and he is usually proved to be right ( 404 , vol . II , p . 568 ) . It has been thought in the past that in symptomatic epilepsy that is to say the acquired , not the congenital form no personality ...
... epilepsy merely on this basis , and he is usually proved to be right ( 404 , vol . II , p . 568 ) . It has been thought in the past that in symptomatic epilepsy that is to say the acquired , not the congenital form no personality ...
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... epileptic disturbances , therefore , were acquired in this case rather than hereditary . It was initially believed that the personality characteristics of epileptic patients could be en- countered only in epilepsy of hereditary origin ...
... epileptic disturbances , therefore , were acquired in this case rather than hereditary . It was initially believed that the personality characteristics of epileptic patients could be en- countered only in epilepsy of hereditary origin ...
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... epilepsy - have maintained among other things that the " viscous " change of personality long regarded as typical of genuine epilepsy , is in fact quite characteristic of temporal epilepsy ( 394 , vol . II , p . 665 ) . - Johnson's ...
... epilepsy - have maintained among other things that the " viscous " change of personality long regarded as typical of genuine epilepsy , is in fact quite characteristic of temporal epilepsy ( 394 , vol . II , p . 665 ) . - Johnson's ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
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