On the good use of epilepsy by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Clinical Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 338-339

  Iniesta, Ivan ^a  

^a WALTON CENTRE FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSULTATION; EPILEPSY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; SHORT SURVEY; ARTICLE; HISTORY; HUMAN; MALE; PUBLIC FIGURE; USSR;

EPILEPSY; FAMOUS PERSONS; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; RUSSIA (PRE-1917);

EID: 54549113243     PISSN: 14702118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.8-3-338     Document Type: Short Survey

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