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MOST areas where there is a high prevalence of multiple sclerosis coincide in a highly suggestive fashion with areas where glaciation has played an important part in providing parent material for soils. However, the converse is certainly not true: all glacial soils cannot be correlated with areas where the prevalence of multiple sclerosis is high. Maps showing the distribution of multiple sclerotic cases in Northern Ireland, south-eastern Ontario, Sweden, and Denmark are alike in one respect—they all bear a remarkable resemblance to maps illustrating the distribution of boulders or geochemical anomalies in any map prepared for the purpose of searching in a glaciated area for buried ore bodies.
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WARREN, H. Geology and Multiple Sclerosis. Nature 184, 561 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/184561a0
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