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Letter: Weak spells

Published 13 January 1996

From Sheila Silcock

You seem to have invented a new disease called amniotrophic lateral sclerosis (Technology, 16 December). It should, of course, be amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known motor neurone disease. I wonder what our most famous sufferer (Stephen Hawking) would have to say about it.

Issue no. 2012 published 13 January 1996

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