The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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... changes in a person can be understood from previous changes , while other mental changes cannot be so understood . The disturbances of mental origin in Johnson were of a varying nature and became mixed with special qualities of ...
... changes in a person can be understood from previous changes , while other mental changes cannot be so understood . The disturbances of mental origin in Johnson were of a varying nature and became mixed with special qualities of ...
Page 97
... changes in a large percentage of instances . It is found almost exclusively in males of middle and more advanced age who have a chronic cough . It is evident to anyone who has read Johnson's letters and diaries that he suffered from ...
... changes in a large percentage of instances . It is found almost exclusively in males of middle and more advanced age who have a chronic cough . It is evident to anyone who has read Johnson's letters and diaries that he suffered from ...
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... changes occur , in contrast to the genuine or constitutional form . This has proved to be wrong . The characteristic changes in the per- sonality are seen not les frequently in symptomatic epilepsy . Rümke maintains ( rightly , I ...
... changes occur , in contrast to the genuine or constitutional form . This has proved to be wrong . The characteristic changes in the per- sonality are seen not les frequently in symptomatic epilepsy . Rümke maintains ( rightly , I ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
Copyright | |
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