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Introduction of a rational therapy for phenylketonuria kindled widespread hopes, some of which were perhaps naïve, that this form of mental deficiency could be eliminated, that similar ways could be opened to deal effectively with other, more frequent types of mental deficiency, and even that this disease offered, as J. B. S. Haldane once said about it, a realistic approach to solution of the philosophical problem of mind and body. Social forces strongly backed the promising effort. Enabling legislation of a kind unprecedented except for contagious diseases was enacted to ensure case finding and treatment on a large scale. After . . .
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