On the good use of epilepsy by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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From: Clinical Medicine
Date: 20080601
Author:Iniesta, Ivan

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In a letter to his colleague and literary rival, Ivan Turgueniev, dated 17 June 1863, the Russian novelist, Fyodor Dostoevsky, ...

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