Abstract
Until recently, it was not widely appreciated that muscle disease occurs in association with alcoholism. However, as early as the middle of the nineteenth century, clinicians realized that neurogenic disease alone could not explain all the motor symptoms manifested by their alcoholic patients.
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Galdi, A.P. (1984). Toxic Myopathies. In: Diagnosis and Management of Muscle Disease. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6335-4_11
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