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Declining incidence of hysteria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Swaran P. Singh
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH
Alan S. Lee
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH
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