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General Paresis in the Psychiatric Department of a General Hospital in India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

A. Venkoba Rao ,
P. S. Ranganathan  and
M. Natarajan
A. Venkoba Rao
Affiliation:
Madurai Medical College, Erskine Hospital, Madurai, India
P. S. Ranganathan
Affiliation:
Madurai Medical College, Erskine Hospital, Madurai, India
M. Natarajan
Affiliation:
Madurai Medical College, Erskine Hospital, Madurai, India
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Thirty-four first admissions between the years 1964 and 1970 into the Department of Psychiatry, Erskine Hospital, Madurai, South India, who were diagnosed as general paresis formed the material for this prospective study. Diagnosis was based on clinical and positive blood and CSF serology, and on Lange's paretic reaction in the CSF.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 121 , Issue 561 , August 1972 , pp. 143 - 146
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1972 

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