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THE greatest problem of modern psychiatry is that of schizophrenia. The vast majority of the permanent occupants of the mental hospital consists of patients suffering from this disease, which besides cripples a large number of patients who contrive to live a precarious existence in the outside world as tramps, eccentrics, prostitutes and similar misfits.
The Biology of Schizophrenia
By Dr. R. G. Hoskins. Pp. 192. (New York: W. W. Norton and Co., Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1946.) 15s. net.
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ALLEN, C. CAUSAL FACTORS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA. Nature 159, 725 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159725a0
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