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Prospects for Patients with Strokes, with Special Reference to the Hypertensive Hemiplegic

BMJPublished 31 July 1965Open access
Gerry Adams
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TL;DR

Soranus of Ephesus distinguished apoplexy from residual paralysis, and practised a system of treatment, interpreted by Caelius Aurelianus in the fifth century, which included much that might be considered "modern" to-day.

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