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Quotation from Lectures on Clinical Psychiatry by Emil Kraepelin
“This infirmity is the incurable outcome of a very common history of disease, to which we will provisionally give the name of Dementia Prcecox”
Lectures on Clinical Psychiatry, Lecture III, Dementia Prcecox, trans. Thomas Johnstone (1904)
Kraepelin introduces dementia praecox through a bedside case and emphasizes course and outcome.
Citation: "This infirmity is the incurable outcome of a very common history of disease, to which we will provisionally give the name of Dementia Prcecox" — Emil Kraepelin, Lectures on Clinical Psychiatry, Lecture III, Dementia Prcecox, trans. Thomas Johnstone (1904). (id lectures-on-clinical-psychiatry-q1)
Portrait: Emil Kraepelin 1926, Unknown author, Public domain.
