William James West must have felt depressed and frustrated as he penned his letter
to the Lancet at the end of January 1841. His son, James Edwin West, had developed
a strange nodding of the head at the age of 4 months and had gone on to develop what
was obviously a convulsive disorder [
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Publication history
Accepted:
May 18,
2001
Received in revised form:
May 15,
2001
Received:
April 14,
2001
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