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A pyramid skull of an epileptic (1901). Anthropological diagnose of a positivistic physician

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Licata, M. A pyramid skull of an epileptic (1901). Anthropological diagnose of a positivistic physician. Neurol Sci 39, 773–775 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-017-3174-4

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