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PROF. FELIX PLATJT, whose death occurred on June 27 at Epsom, where he had been engaged in research work on the reaction of vitamin C to neurological and psychiatric conditions, was born at Cassel on July 7, 1877. He studied medicine at Geneva and Berlin, and qualified at Munich in 1902. His principal work, which was carried out at the Robert Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases in Berlin and at the Psychiatric Clinic at Munich, where he was appointed to an additional professorship in 1915, was concerned with the study of the nervous system, especially the cerebro-spinal fluid, and the serological and psychiatric aspects of syphilis. His chief publications were on the Wasser-mann reaction in psychiatry (1909), examination of the cerebrospinal fluid (1913), hallucinations in syphilis (1913), general paralysis in negroes and Indians (1926), and the treatment of syphilitic mental disorders. For several years he was one of the editors of the Zeitschrift für die gesamte Neurologie und Psychiatrie.
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Prof. Felix Plaut (1877–1940). Nature 146, 190 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146190b0
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