Probable first report of a motor deafferentation syndrome in the Paraguayan War

ABSTRACT The Paraguayan War ended 150 years ago. Back then, there were outbreaks of combatants’ limb weakness and tingling related to "palustrian cachexia", not clearly funded at the time on nutritional deficiency, the use of native flora to feed troops, and alcoholism. We report a case of...

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Main Authors: Marleide da Mota GOMES, Marcos Raimundo Gomes de FREITAS
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Revinter Publicações 2021-06-01
Series:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2021000600554&tlng=en
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