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... physicians who first described them ; thus we have Korsakov's psychosis , Alzheimer's disease , Ganser's ... physician ; similarly with the words ' anxiety state ' . I would have to agree that having no better termino- logy ...
... physicians who first described them ; thus we have Korsakov's psychosis , Alzheimer's disease , Ganser's ... physician ; similarly with the words ' anxiety state ' . I would have to agree that having no better termino- logy ...
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... physician . In one of his plays Molière has a physician asked this question : ' How is it that opium is able to put people to sleep ? ' The physician replies with great profundity that it is because opium has ' dormitive properties ...
... physician . In one of his plays Molière has a physician asked this question : ' How is it that opium is able to put people to sleep ? ' The physician replies with great profundity that it is because opium has ' dormitive properties ...
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... physician to make . It was not known nor even guessed that the important factor was the micro- organism causing the ... physicians had in those days said : we must now have a double blind trial to make sure that quinine is not just ...
... physician to make . It was not known nor even guessed that the important factor was the micro- organism causing the ... physicians had in those days said : we must now have a double blind trial to make sure that quinine is not just ...
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SCIENCE AND PSYCHOLOGY | 25 |
CONCERNING BODY AND MIND | 57 |
HYPOTHESES AND PHILOSOPHY | 97 |
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