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Three Biological Principles observed in Speech Inscriptions

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IN the disease known as general paralysis the mental side consists of a gradually progressive disintegration of the mind. There is often a time very early in the progress of the disease when no mental defect can be found and no speech peculiarity can be detected, but yet when certain bodily signs are sufficiently prominent to render a diagnosis certain. Speech inscriptions in such cases always show an interesting abnormality.

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SCRIPTURE, E. Three Biological Principles observed in Speech Inscriptions. Nature 113, 386–387 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113386a0

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