mdp.39015069912866 1880 our time are in doubt and fear, that neurasthenic symptoms are the predecessor of severe and incurable conditions of the spinal cord, such as ataxia, muscular atrophy, Cases of insanity, from which we learn the Economy of placing patients given at the time the case was reported in the Journal of Insanity. page, Dr. Ray reters to the case reported many years ago by Wm. Hood, in the phrenological transactions, when the patient, a blacksmith, lost the memory of all words except yes and no, while he "If the patient be insane," he says, "he will not admit any absurdities to which he may give expression, but with the aphasic the case is case of our patient the disease, unsuspected and undeclared, in the seclusion of the same region of the cerebrum, must have existed from a period, long anterior to mdp.39015069912817 1881 diseased mental condition as moral Insanity exists as a fact, while soino deny obtain by hard study, careful thought and diligent examination of every case which is brought to notice or placed person to be placed at the head of an institution containing 250 insane patients. motor disquietude with fever, for instance, cases of melancholia agitata, and those of acute delirium of male paralytics (securing patient in bed, use of wet blanket). In the year 1842, Dr. Davey detected the existence of osteomalacia in those dying insane; and in a number of the Medical Times for that though, in the case under consideration, this fact may have been an important factor in the production of the condition found in the patient''s bones, present time, the patient is completely cured [see case 4]. insane, records a case occurring in his care, at the asylum at Fulton as follows: mdp.39015023536801 1882 Not to recognize it in the present state of cerebromental pathology would in certain instances prove disastrous to the rights of the insane before the courts, and His condition upon examination to-day, October 18th, is as follows: General appearance good, appetite good, digestion good, muscular atrophy very slight, tendo-reflex slightly exaggerated, muscles died with tubercular disease at the Royal Edinburgh Asylum, 153 passed rapidly into the state of chronic insanity, semi-conscious and deuto-psychic states familiar to psychiatry, as well as the facts of delusional monomania, emotional and moral insanity and the commoner forms of D., late Physician and Superintendent of the Connecticut Retreat tor the Insane, Honorary Member of the Medico-Psychological Society of Great Britain, and President of the State Board of at this time to direct attention with a view to their practical bearing on the treatment of certain forms of disease Influences ordinarily producing insanity in persons predisposed to mental disease, may cause a number of cases mdp.39015030034949 1883 personal observances, with phenomena perfectly similar tothose stated by Gull in his cases, and he further described In fact, one of the most dangerous forms of mental disease at this time is the so-called " emotional insanity," fifty (750) persons recovered from their insanity, the hospitals accomplished a great good. The case caused great excitement at the time, and a long and Considering the eccentricities of the Guiteaus, the numerous cases of insanity occurring in the family, and in particular the weaknesses of the assassin''s parents, We would for observing his mental condition; who was also considered insane by a number of persons who had seen him IN 1881 I reported* the following cases of insanity resulting from the use of quinine: '' present under treatment two cases of chronic insanity describes twenty-six cases of insanity, in which ear diseases first appeared. mdp.39015030752136 1884 the care of all the insane by the State, and the remarkable advances made under the direction of ably philanthropic medical men in curative treatment, sanitary In the time when the insane were, by the general public view, regarded with equal ignorance and aversion, it operation, and is at the present time moving to considerable modification of asylums already built, and to the selection of plans embracing detached buildings for the insane by the term "self-recognized insanity" (folie avec conscience) is meant the mental state of that class of patients by insanity, ought the sufferer to be held criminally liable for his acts, although evidence existed that he was conscious of the difference between right and wrong? of this form of mental derangement, at one time entertained strong doubts of the existence of insanity without reported cases (Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, mdp.39015069912833 1885 exact number of our insane population; but from information furnished by the United States census office and asylum breeds its like and burdens the State with hereditary imbecility, idiocy, insanity, deaf-mutism, and the lesser degrees of mental defect, must be made the subject of the sudden insanity in somnic form and the post neuralalgic mental aberration which have fallen under the writer''s observations, but which lack of time forbids him to than this, in the institution to which he was so early appointed, years before the existence of this Association, he commenced the work of development of the structure of psychological medicine in this country, building aged 55 years, was admitted to the Missouri State Lunatic Asylum, with a form of insanity which, from the based mainly upon disease associated with one of the socalled five senses, as it now generally is, but shall be exPsycho-Sensory (Affective or Moral) Insanity. mdp.39015013757417 1886 part and organ of the nervous system is entitled to consideration in any serious attempt to understand the working of the mechanism through which the nerve force-a nerve cells can be shown to be present, this is confirmed by the fact that the process of reflex transference occupies a very noticeable time – much longer the fact, that the finest reactions, interesting in a special manner the nervous prolongation, are usually equally verified at a period of time of that young persons, who do not present diffuse degenerations of the cerebral arteries, or marked psychical disturbances, may learn to comprebend again spoken language, and to speak by means of long exercise, The other two cases appeared to be of the more common phthisical form, that is, a mental state combining suspicion, unsociability, etc., with a debilitated bodily condition; although in the woman the mental symptoms were hvd.hc4343 1887 In our intercourse with those classes who exhibit nervous and mental diseases, we have found insanity resulting The subject of the curability and the successful treatment of insanity in its early stages, in and out of asylums, at home and by change of environment, is one education, the social surroundings in which he lives, and the special conditions of life, have great influence in forming the character, yet this cannot escape the fatal laws of hereditary transmission; the age of the parents as a conjoint symptom in some of the cases of caisson disease at the time of the building of the St. Louis Bridge, and I have seen it follow upon a residence in the high altitudes of Colorado and an attack in cases of insanity, to observe, classify and treat, functional and structural disease of the brain itself, on the of cases of insanity that occur is there organic disease mdp.39015034809072 1888 He had endeavored to compare the confused mental condition caused by a blow on the head with the mental states of somnambulists, and some epileptics, and with amnesia, known to follow some cases Let it have a patient and persistent trial from the beginning to the end of every case, for its general and nutritional and alterative influence, even as we try other remedies, which sustain, though they do not cure our treatment and cure of inebriety." One year previous tothis the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane took the same ground, and to-day exactly described a case of moral insanity consecutive to another mental form. and relatives epileptic; hence we see that the same morbific cause produces different effects; in one of the degenerates it presents itself under the form of moral insanity, of some other state, it does not alter the case as regards (he present question of moral insanity. hvd.hc4345 1889 the initial lesion, these cases present well known anatomical features when death occurs some years subsequent to with compression of the spinal cord, and complete paralysis of the lower extremities, and was reduced to a markedly depressed condition, but a short time thereafter he but, if kept in mind while examining cases in the department of gynecology, w]ll guard against the mistake of overlooking affections of the general system, which might modify or cause diseases of the sexual system." present time the effect of disease of the sexual organs in women in causing disease, and if insanity follows in any of bis cases, be may be able to estimate the influence of the primary disease in causing the mental disorder. Ivrognerie ses Causes et son Traitement The Psychic Life of Micro-Organisms -Lectures on Nervous Diseases, from the Stand-Point of Cerebral and Spinal Localization, and mdp.39015069912676 1890 that if, after a course of antisyphilitic treatment of mercury and the iodide of potass., symptoms indicating localization persist, a surgical operation is justifiable, for gummáta are inert tumors and they act as foreign bodies. symptoms of a cerebral tumor: head pain, vertigo, vomiting, optic neuritis, and convulsions, which were most frequently preceded by a sensory aura in the left hand and voluntary muscle spasm coming on with attempted voluntary movement, and being gradually overcome by repeatedly excited volitions, that caused this disease to attract This symptom-grouping enables me to recall an occasional case in the army, before I was familiar with the distinguishing characteristic of the disease, while acting as Morel has observed in patients attacked by paroxysmal dyspnoea resulting from cardiac disease, the periodical return of strange ideas, hypochondriacal sensations, mental disease; and it is very probable that few who have passed any considerable length of time in any large hospital for the insane have not had mdp.39015039397784 1891 for the race superstitions lead the friends of persons suffering from this form of disease to conceal the true conditions, and to attribute the mental disturbance to the In the case cited we have a simple subjective depression, probably having its origin in a disturbance of the nerves, whence it happened that scotomic dots readily formed, in predisposed cases from coexistent disturbed mentality, an illusional basis cases of insanity in the State hospitals, either in the wards Details of the Case.—On the 24th of June, the left lateral cord, in a dog about one year old, was cut transversely at the upper limit of the lumbar medulla. other source, and the symptoms of this form are so identical with the regular general paralysis that it is stretching a point to claim another name for the disease. mental manifestation as witnessed in insanity upon morbid physical states of the brain, whether detected in our hvd.hc4348 1892 disorders and in nearly all such cases, if the cause is recognized and removed by proper medical treatment or In the same connection he reports a case which developed chorea at forty years of age and epilepsy at fifty, dementia," which follows all "long-continued mental disease." The latter author very properly, I think, classes I think we can safely say in regard to the co-existence of insanity and these two neuroses that mental disturbance of some kind is always present in epileptics and Hayes Agnew, "Present Status of Brain Surgery, Based on the Practice of Philadelphia Surgeons," New York Medical Record, Sept. large doses cause a general paralysis of the central neryous system.Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. In many cases the symptoms resembled general paralysis, alcoholic insanity and syphilitic diseases of Receives cases of Mental and Nervous Disease, for medical treatment and care, hvd.hc4349 1893 homicide has been committed by a maniac under the influence of epilepsy, there exist special signs, which ordinarily permit to diagnose the mental state of the subject the case of a man of forty-five, who presented the ordinary symptoms of apoplexy, with paralysis of the right of the injections in this case was on the physical symptoms, but the mental condition was improved a great D., Professor of Clinical Medicine at the New York PostGraduate Medical School and Hospital; Assistant Visiting Physician York; mental disease, general paralysis of the insane ; general paresis, in which disease the affection of the kidneys is less frequently met with than in other cases. Dr. Alice Bennett, ß calls attention to the extreme frequency of Bright''s disease among insane patients, reports Norris, of the Maryland State Hospital,t has recently reported three cases of insanity with mdp.39015030752169 1894 * Read before the Section on Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System, r"anAmerlcan Medical Congress, at Washington, D. remedial institution doing the best work in the treatment of nervous diseases, we will now consider the recognized as the subjects of disease, and the special care and treatment of which are forced upon us by every scientific and humane consideration. Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases, University Medical College; Special rule, in early life, is a family disease, attacks and progresses uniformly on both sides, produces a double clubfoot, is attended at times with slight disturbances of literature of the subject and citing cases and the opinions of authors, the writer went on to say that the interesting train of symptoms, long known and recognized— skeptics in regard to the value of medicine in the treatment of disease in general, and by advising their patients mdp.39015010787516 1895 CASE III.—Patient in the New York City Insane Hospital CASE XI.--A patient of the Utica Insane Hospital had Lahr had observed the case of a patient of markedly defective heredity who committed a sexual crime. P. Gray, in 1876 report of the Utica Insane Hospital, narrates the following case; About a dozen years ago, in the second systematic American papers on the subject, 1 pointed out that the insane could D., Kansas City, Mo. Professor Nervous and Mental Diseases, University Medical College; Special Lecturer Diseases in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore; Superintendent of the Maryland Hospital for the Insane, etc. Normal ovariotomy for general or cerebral nervous conditions has come and gone, but oophorectomy of the diseased organ preceding or even following the development of the first decade mental disease was produced by the excitement and general agitation following new conditions of life. mdp.39015031331708 1896 "In the cases coming under my observation the symptoms have followed immediately upon receipt of the injury which caused it."-ESKRIDGE. The causes, in the majority of cases coming under my observation were constitutional, chief pre-existing mental states like paretic dementia. It would be well for the gynecologist, the surgeon and the man in general medicine, and better a thousand times for the patient if the value of sleep as a therapeutic agent were more fully considered." interest or motive than charity and justice in the management of a state insane hospital with their pecuniarily disinterested medical head and independent board of manage. York, on the amendments proposed to the Law of Commitment of the Insane in the State of New York, says, speaking of the report: In the five following cases pædicatio is generally practiced, either as the preferred form of sexual gratification or mdp.39015035868952 1897 men or animals, and it appears that as the artificial restraints and exactions of life become increased and intensified, especially in the great cities, the various forms of disordered function and disease multiply. In case of a youth seventeen years of age, of good physical development and medical history, well nourished, weighing about 125 pounds, upon What physical ailments might result from an abnormal mental and nervous condition thus induced would depend largely upon the particular character of the treatment to which the victim was subjected at the hands of his long continued hypnotic state on the nervous systems of its subjects, especially its damaging effect on the inhibitory centres of the brain which regulate the normal volitions and the natural spontaneity of the mental G. Spiller, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, September, 1886; "Cases of Aphasia Illustrating Especially Disorders of Pantomime," Philadelphia Hospital Reports, vol. mdp.39015006985298 1898 Localized sensory degenerative manifestations in the legs, and possibly violent pains, are a consequence of disease of the posterior roots and posterior columns of the spinal cord; general anaesthesia or more frequently analgesia is of psychical origin, and due to defective apperception (loss of the faculty of attention). as the patients forget these episodes, or, just as their relatives usually do, refer them to the manifestations or subjective troubles, which cause them to seek medical aid. D., Pittsburgh, Pa. Lecturer on Mental and Nervous Diseases Medical Department of the Western Pennsylvania University; Alienist South Side Hospital of Pittsburgh; Member Staff belong to a confirmed case of the primary form of this disease, his seizures were generally slight, occasioned by He had known several cases of mental disease induced solely by enforced idleness in men turned out of the public service, and more particularly the army, in conformity with a fixed rule, while mdp.39015053595099 1899 brain of these patients that causes its spasmodic, vertiginous, maniacal and other automatic impulsions, the automatisms of epilepsy and epileptoid states alone constituting a large part of the literature of the disease, must The predeterminating factors, aside from inherent predisposition, in these cases are usually causes of brain breakdown and a marked and timely psychical impression, not clinic of mental diseases, are especially the patient''s conduct during the physical examination, toward the little favors "Dementia is the natural termination of mental degeneration, whether going on in the individual or through generations." In this sense I use the term dementia, and consider that he is at present suffering from this diseased condition of the brain. The cases observed by us presented these special features: No hereditary, mental, nervous or degenerative predisposition; in the personal antecedents of our patients there mdp.39015053595081 1900 *While this paper was in the press the patient was again admitted to the clinic (December 23rd, 1896): essentially in the same condition (transitory mental disorder and In those facts just presented we have seen faimvalle occurring in the form of hunger of a general need numbering some 500 cases, and covering a period of fortyfive years, I gather the following data of deaths from may produce a delusion of memory at the time the hallucination occurs, by causing the subjective sensation to receive present edition the author has developed the special treatment of each of the various types of hay-fever cases, and chronic mental diseases are distinguished by acute paroxysms of new symptoms, which occur at some period of It is a disease of adult life, most cases appearing after forty years of age. classes of chronic, organic and nervous diseases are given this advantage in addition to the regular medical treatment. mdp.39015067094188 1901 there is probably none in which electricity is more generally useful than in the treatment of neurasthenia, or nervous exhaustion, with its many psychical and other symptoms, simulating at times, grave organic trouble. RESULTS OF FIVE YEARS'' EXPERIENCE WITH CO-OPERATION BETWEEN STATE HOSPITALS FOR THE INSANE. cases presenting mental symptoms the tendency is to recovery unless the patient dies early.—Medical Record Abstract from British Medical Journal, September 22, 1900. hale, commonplace, fox-hunting squire, and after an unhappy life, became, a few years after marriage, a demonstrable case of chronic hysteric insanity and died demented. For the private care and treatment of Nervous persons, Mild mental cases, Opium and For the private care and treatment of Nervous persons, Mild mental cases, Opium and determined like any other case by diagnosis of disease involving the brain so as to cause symptoms of mental disharmony with environment or natural character of the mdp.39015069912825 1902 The drug was employed almost exclusively in cases in which sleep was not prevented by physical pains and in conditions of excitement of the central CYTO-DIAGNOSIS.—The discovery of the different cellular elements in the cerebro-spinal fluid obtained by lumbar puncture has lately become a means of diagnosing various nervous diseases. and Nageotte (Ibid, 1901, No. 18) report the results of onehundred and twenty cases of different nervous diseases Age quotes Raimann (British Medical Journal,) as contributing from the clinic of Wagner in Vienna, an important article based on the study of 103 patients suffering from various forms of idiocy and mental disease, In the section on diseases of the nervous system, Dr. 114 Reviews, Book Notices, Reprints, Etc. Spiller devotes a large portion of his space to an able discussion of tumors and abscesses of the brain. depend a successful treatment of those cases of mental disorder that form a part of every physician''s practice. mdp.39015069912981 1903 case of the lamented President Garfield when that persistent pain in his toe and foot, which the distinguished patient complained of, was spoken of daily by him, without The last time, following excitement and alcoholic excess, patient was incapable of work, had become irritable, whom 1 could present after a course of \% years, as a typical example of a chronic case with hypochondriacal delusions of persecution in the stage of allopsychical disorientation*. in form of isolation from the conditions in which the patient became ill, and positive—in the sense of purposive methodical medical psychagogy, where wake suggestions may play a prominent part. physicians have naturally an objection to hurting the feelings of patients'' friends by stating syphilis as the cause Dr. 142 Reviews, Book Notices, Reprints, Etc. Harrington''s chapter on Hygiene relates the wonderful results attained by the practical applications of recent investigations into the cause and prevention of such diseases as mdp.39015069912841 1904 A Philadelphia ophthalmologist, a self-constituted censor of the profession, has, according to the Medical News, lately made a "desperate attempt to attract attention to an over-ridden theory by affecting to show that But an eclectic proof of the correctness of our position in this question we will leave to perceive in the fact, that exactly the same disease type without polyneuritis is met with, as I have recently stated. performed a number of complicated actions apparently in conscious state, and first presented evident signs of mental disease in consequence of excessive exertions. At the time the prevalence an of unpleasant, painful mental state in cases of diseases so differently colored The conditions just mentioned are, namely, the frequency of the disease, the danger in which the patients always are, the almost certain effect of suitable medical efforts, which will very vividly keep before you the importance of a correct diagnosis. mdp.39015069912965 1905 The majority of reported cases of Exhibition are acquired states of mental weakness by virtue of which consciousness is clouded and inhibition lost.* condition of confusion by associative weakness, to the disease type of amentia analyzed by him, while he later designated by mania those cases, which do not essentially feeling; that it comes from an attempt on the part of judgment to locate the source of a threatening danger and provide some means of escape, and that consequently the possession of a delusion is not in itself evidence of a disease of One surgeon, operating on the brain in a case of delirium or dementia, removes a tumor or other cause of pressure or irritation, and the proceeding is followed by the most gratifying results; another, stimulated into activity by reading a I cite the case of a young girl who was admitted to the Clinic on the eighth day after the acute onset of her disease and died within three weeks with irregular fever and rapid loss of strength. mdp.39015069912809 1906 Ambrose Ranney, of New York, in 1881, reflecting anatomical observation on this subject up to the time of his writing his treatise of that day on applied anatomy of the nervous system, called attention to the fact (Applied Anatomy belong to a real clinical form of disease will not be discussed here; for the present purpose they have the common, prominent symptom, that the mental depression, like The connection between ear troubles and mental disorder in point of time is to be well recognized in the following case: A merchant, with no hereditary taint, but The great increase of knowledge concerning those morbid conditions of the human body commonly but erroneously described as mental diseases, and the resulting improvements made in recent years in the methods employed in Then follows a description of the symptoms of alienation, the methods of examination of patients, including examinations of the cerebrospinal fluid, the treatment of cases of alienation, a description of the modern hospital for the insane, a statement of mdp.39015012321009 1907 pertinent, and directly in line with the theory of involuntarism; and the review of this case by the alienist, Dr. McGuire, shows in mentality, all the mind phenomena; the the diseased brain giving new factors influencing the conduct of the individual in his relation to society. conception, Bethe attempted to show that in the phylogenetic development of animal life, so called plasmatic nervenets constitute the lowest method of connection of nerve these terminations "are not a part of the cells." The author hopes that it will prove possible by means of appropriate experimental methods to observe degenerated pericellular masses surrounding an intact cellular body. have likewise observed certain modifications of the neurofibrils in the cortical nerve cells of a patient having general Member French Medico-Psychological Association; Honorary President Section of Nervous and Mental Diseases, Pan American Medical Congress, 1893; Professor of Medical Jurisprudence, Dearborn mdp.39015050616369 1908 It would seem that a case of this kind, presenting the above conditions, could be cured under the influence of persuasion; however, observation shows that "Hypnotism is a psychic state rendering the subject presenting it susceptible to the suggestion of a second person. Cranial bone changes in 1 acute and 4 chronic melancholia, in 3 acute and 4 chronic mania, in 9 epileptic insanity, in 9 general and 1 tabo-paresis, in 1 senile paranoia, in 1 organic, 4 senile, 1 primary and 2 secondary dementia; a total of 40. with great loss of sleep) may avert a confirmed condition of insanity, apparently imminent in her case. An opportunity is thus given for study of the subjective mental state, of the correctness of methods of management, and of the reactions upon the patient for good or Absolute mind and brain rest and perfect therapeutic tranquilization with regular electrization and the treatment of the entire patient brought the satisfactory results. mdp.39015069912684 1909 A under my observation, in the person of a Russo-American, aged twenty-six, resident of the United States about sixteen years, who possesses, among the numerous paresthetic nevertheless up to the present time has not been exactly described in mental pathology are the great psychic alterations National Insane Asylum, three cases of uncinariasis accompanied by great psychic changes in which we could establish a movements of midlife mind and body which characterizes full mental maturity, may come on more or less pronouncedly with advanced years after the seventh decade or New York, but from lack of proper public support and political dissensions a few years later, it was changed into an insane asylum. normal mental state is destroyed by disease of the brain; or, by St. Louis, Mo. This hospital is open to the medical profession generally, and physicians who bring St. Louis, Mo. This hospital is open to the medical profession generally, and physicians who bring mdp.39015069912858 1910 now, after long study and controversy, be said to be established as peculiar to this period, and diseases that are distinctly school and city-bred abound, with apparently increasing frequency. Gold Brick "Mark Twain"—Virginia University College of Medicine Moving Picturesare Provided for Insane The National Association for the Study of Epilepsy and the Care and Treatment of Epileptics American Academy of Medicine The American Medical At the 1907 meeting of the American Medical Association I reported a series of cases under the title of "Symmetrical Gangrene of the Skin," not recognizing their identity as pellagra. It would also appear that priapism may be the precursor of other leukaemic symptoms, and it is said to be present in 25 per cent, of all the cases of this disease. The treatment in all cases must be actively and vigorously antisyphilitic and whatever special method may be followed, must be based upon the peculiarities and susceptibilities of the individual patient and upon the effects resulting mdp.39015069912692 1911 direct exciting causes, he mentions "physical work, intellectual work, abuse of pleasure and the emotions." He attributes these conditions to mental defects, such as "pusillanimity, emotivity, aboulia, indecision, etc.,--all symptoms While alcohol was not so prominent in the two later assassins, it was undoubtedly a factor and indicated beyond question that given the poor feeble brain with unlimited opportunities to use spirits and crime will follow with the same 2. That for a few weeks after the homicide, in December, 1873, and January, 1874, his condition was one of absolute mental and physical prostration, torpor of mind, associated with a totally exhausted and debilitated state of the The present increased feebleness of mind from disease, in his case, may pass off and leave type, meanwhile giving such case a term somewhat descriptive, for example, "depressive hallucinosis, "allied to dementia precox," etc., should lead eventually to a more perfect classification of mental diseases. mdp.39015025904130 1912 such examples as: A man aged 38 years, the father of 19 defective children, all living, he and his wife both under par mentally; as was another couple with 9 imbecile children; and an action natural to the individual as the result of disease involving the brain and causing aberration in the associated Table 6 gives the results of studies of the palatal transverse suture in 130 skulls of normal persons and 148 of criminal adults in the laboratory of legal medicine at the University of Turin, Italy.10 of moderate size and made up in every teacher''s case (whatever he may teach) of most carefully selected medical practitioners of good general and professional education in the entire The present work is the direct outcome of a series of lectures and demonstrations of neurological and mental examination methods which the author gave in a course to the internes mdp.39015067286420 1913 Nervous and Mental Diseases American Medical Association 1894; Professor Neurology Chicago PostGraduate School 1903; Professorof Nervousand eulogized one of the greatest of America''s and the world''s medical men, who placed alcoholism among the diseases as well as a time when this earth was a fiery globe; when animal and vegetable life could not exist; but so soon as the temperature permitted, "organic life developed itself from external circumstances," or as Haeckel expresses it: "spontaneous generation It is noted at this time that there are no physical symptoms present; gait is normal; that the patient shows no painful phenomena in the lower extremities. Nervous and Mental Diseases American Medical Association 1894; Professer Neurology Chicago PostGraduate School 1903, Professor of Nervous The first half of a paper on "Modern Psychology in Medicine and Law," read, by invitation, before the Society of Medical Jurisprudence, New York City, November 11, 1912 by H. mdp.39015069912650 1914 pathology of mental diseases aside from dementia paralytica, in which condition certain histological changes have report to proper authorities for medical examination, children who show the above tendencies and all juvenile delinquents seen by the court should have their mental status York State Inebriate Asylum and have laws passed regulating the commitment of cases and placing it on a par should attribute it to the fact that these two persons are subjected to like influences at the same time, in the same place, thoughtful, forceful and timely editorial on the above subject, which, not having received from our American contemporaries the attention it deserves, is here given place, because Y. Times for May 12, 1912, the eminent professor of mental diseases at Cornell University Medical College says: "Their shortcomings are due to defects in early fact that insanity is mental disease, makes it a subject for medical observation, judgment and treatment. mdp.39015053636042 1915 of this important matter of mental impression and personal satisfaction as to dietary, which suggestively includes agreeableness in medical dosage, is a potent contribution on "Voice and Manners in Medical Practice" results of experience obtained by residence in such builings, and derived from the careful study of the requirements of the peculiar class of persons for which they are When I say this I speak as one with experience as a teacher for forty years; first in junior capacity and general utility man in a large medical school and Nervous and Mental Diseases American Medical Association 1894; Professor Neurology Chicago PostGraduate School 1903; Professor of Nervous and Nervous and Mental Diseases American Medical Association 1894; Professor Neurology Chicago PostGraduate School 1903; Professor of Nervous and Nervous and Mental Diseases American Medical Association 1894; Professor Neurology Chicago PostGraduate School 1903; Professor of Nervous and