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. 1991 Dec 21;303(6817):1589–1591. doi: 10.1136/bmj.303.6817.1589

Vincent van Gogh's illness: acute intermittent porphyria?

L S Loftus 1, W N Arnold 1
PMCID: PMC1676250  PMID: 1773180

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