Lectures on Hysteria and Allied Vaso-Motor Conditions
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m expressing appreciation of the author's observations, for their intrinsic worth is their very sufficient commendation. The book consists of lectures published at various intervals from 1896 onwards, and herein gathered into a complete presentation of the author's views on hysteria. As is inevitable in lecture-form, there are repetitions, but the gain in vividness of presentment atones for occasional redundance. Throughout the work presents evidence of close thought upon the difficult problems of hysteria and of a sufficient clinical experience. As a matter of
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عنوان ژورنال:
دوره 28 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016