Carl Wernicke and the concept of 'elementary symptom'

A Krahl1, M Schifferdecker, A Beveridge

  • 1Klinik und Poliklinik fur Neurologie und Psychiatrie, Koln, Germany.

History of Psychiatry
|October 20, 2001
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