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Torulosis of the Central Nervous System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Donald Blair
Donald Blair*
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L.C.C. Mental Hospital Service
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In March, 1939. there was admitted under my care at the St. Pancras Hospital Mental Observation Unit a case of torulosis of the nervous system. This is a very rare disease in this country and the present case is only the third recorded in British medical history (Greenfield et al., 1938; Smith and Crawford, 1930), and the first one to have come under mental hospital supervision. Although such a rarity here, torulosis is more common in the United States, and cases have been reported from nearly every part of the world.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 89 , Issue 374 , January 1943 , pp. 42 - 51
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1943 

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