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The focal sepsis theory of mental illness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Gary Hosty
Gary Hosty*
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Rubery Hill Hospital, Rubery, Birmingham B45 9BB
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“to neglect the study of history is not prudent”. Samuel Johnson. (Quoted by Hunter and Macalpine in the preface to their Three Hundred Years of Psychiatry)

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Sketches from the history of psychiatry
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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , February 1992 , pp. 93 - 94
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1992

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