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Endocrine Factors in the Aetiology of Mongolism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Frederick Edward Kratter
Frederick Edward Kratter*
Affiliation:
Mental Deficiency University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Caswell Training School, Kinston, N.C., U.S.A.
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In the course of the past few decades various controversial theories have been elaborated on the aetiology of mongolism in an attempt to solve the complexity of this interesting clinical entity.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 106 , Issue 445 , October 1960 , pp. 1405 - 1407
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1960 

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