...pointed to an organic aetiology. However since the McEvedy and Beard papers were published, the standard psychiatric teaching, and indeed often...
I couldn't find that quote. Anyone got a reference? That quote is from Wessely in here:...
...of, or contact with sufferers). (One could almost wonder whether they have heard of McEvedy and Beard and are aware of patients reaction to them)
Young? A large proportion of sufferers are middle-aged or menopausal.
This was what McEvedy and Beard said to justify themselves. I should have said that they suggested no abnormality other than being young and...
Given that the term 'Myalgic Encephalomyelitis' comes from the RFH in 55 (I've simplified it somewhat) any diagnostic criteria should really come...
...that is. ................................... Meanwhile, McEvedy and Beard looked at the medical records from the Royal Free outbreak and...
I think McE and B give a pretty good case for ruling out neurological pathology for the symptoms they analysed. They tell us that all...
This is also why I have trouble believing McEvedy and Beard's arguments. They may have been right that the objective neurological evidence wasn't...
Yes, admitting was wrong word, I was half asleep when I wrote that. I meant stating or saying - still the Byron conversation is interesting. But...
...tissue regions are malfunctioning. The signs that McEvedy and Beard discuss do not look as if they indicate specific nerve malfunctions. They...
...cause to psychiatric cause. That is what happened with McEvedy and Beard and the current psychobabble group. If they just left it at unknown...
I think Ramsay is right to point out that in each of these outbreaks there was an epidemic of some sort of feeble viral illness. But I am not sure...
[ATTACH] Here is Melvin Ramsay’s own chapter on McEvedy and Beard if it is of any interest. Hope the files are readable! I think the main...
...not all actually had what was then being called ME. I just don't have faith in McEvedy and Beard's analysis - they didn't ever see any patients.
You're right. That's my muddled brain. Okay. That makes sense. Yes, that is the case. In each outbreak he summarises the key neurological...
If you look at my posts I think you will see that I have been trying hard to make that distinction clear! Right from the start I said I had no...
No, but McEvedy and Beard, whose views in some respects you appear to accept, did. It would help to distinguish carefully the points of difference.
Thanks. I will have a read. But I note this in the abstract: Nevertheless, it is certainly possible that a number of the affected nurses at the...
...reality was like. However, I think we can be sure that McEvedy and Beard were justified in suggesting that the neurological features that were...
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