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HSÜ YING-K'UEI, M.D.

Arch Neurol Psychiatry. 1942;48(2):271-319.

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Consequent to a low economic status and inadequate hygienic precaution, China has a high morbidity rate of dysentery, tuberculosis and malnutrition. There have been a number of clinical reports from China (Keefer and Yang,¹ Keefer, Huang and Yang,² Yang and Hu,³ Keefer,⁴ Keefer, Huang and Yang,⁵ Alexander and Wu⁶ and Yang and Huang⁷) on the nervous disorders associated with these diseases, but corresponding neuropathologic descriptions are scanty (Alexander and Wu⁸). In view of this, I present the following series of cases representing a group of Chinese soldiers who died in a poorly equipped Red Cross base hospital in Peiping, China, of dysentery, intestinal tuberculosis or malnutrition. Postmortem examination in these cases revealed an extraordinarily striking and uniform picture, particularly a widespread degenerative process in the nervous system. My intention in reporting these cases is not only to verify the common clinical impression . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
PEIPING, CHINA

From the Division of Neurology and Psychiatry, Peiping Union Medical College.