Mental diseases: a public health problem

The literature of mental deficiency is almost as old as that of medicine. Imbecility was studied at some length by Plato and Galen and was recognized by Felix Plater, who has be...

The dementia praecox of today, notwithstanding the numerous theories which have been advanced as to its etiology and pathology and the various fundamental conceptions which have...

The responsibility of the hospital for the future of the patient begins with his arrival at the institution and the ultimate outcome of the case often depends entirely upon the...

The introduction of the term psychopathic personality is probably to be attributed to the description of "Die Psychische Minderwertigkeiten" by Koch in 1893. These were referred...

Huntington's chorea is said to have been referred to first by C. O. Waters of Franklin, N. Y., in Dunglison's "Practice of Medicine" in 1842. An article on the subject by Irving...

The administration of the earlier hospitals for mental diseases was placed very wisely in the hands of local boards of directors, managers or trustees. These were made up of per...

The importance of mental diseases as a factor in the social and economic welfare of the community has not been given adequate consideration, notwithstanding the remarkable progr...

In reviewing the history of medicine there is nothing more discouraging than the references found in literature to the views entertained from time to time relative to the cause...

According to Tuke,[213] one of the oldest of the Egyptian papyri in the British Museum (Papyrus Sallier I) makes the following very interesting reference to alcoholism:— "Wherea...

As has already been shown, the modern hospital treatment of mental diseases in this country is a development which represents the progress of nearly two centuries. Satisfactory...

The manic-depressive psychoses as first described by Kraepelin are of comparatively recent origin. The history of the clinical entities included in this new grouping, however, m...

The remarkable accomplishments of medical science during the last few decades may be looked upon as a fairly accurate index of modern progress in general. Nor have these advance...

As the result of an intimate personal knowledge of the subject, acquired during an extended hospital residence as a patient in both public and private institutions, Clifford W....

The psychiatry of the late war is of unusual interest from various points of view. Never before have mental diseases or defects been looked upon as military problems worthy of a...

The medical treatment of mental diseases had its inception, in this country, in the wards of the Philadelphia Hospital, established in 1732 and referred to officially for over a...

The question of responsibility for criminal acts, once a legal problem pure and simple, is now recognized as involving sociological, psychological and psychiatric considerations...

The efficiency of the hospital is very largely a reflection of its organization, administration and personnel, but the material equipment of the institution and the financial re...

Mental disturbances of various types associated with somatic conditions and not sufficiently characteristic or circumscribed in their symptomatology to constitute definite and s...

General paralysis of the insane, general paresis, or dementia paralytica, as it is variously known, from the standpoint of etiology, symptomatology and pathology, is unquestiona...

A history of the development of our western civilization is very largely a study of the process of assimilation of the various racial elements representing a new population. Whi...

The words neurosis, psychosis and psychoneurosis are of obscure origin and have had a varied significance from time to time. Murray[332] defines psychosis as a psychological ter...

The indications are at the present time that the psychiatry of the future will not deal with a consideration of general paralysis and cerebral syphilis, as such, but will differ...

A discussion of the part played by paranoia, or the paranoid conditions however characterized, in the psychiatry of the present day, is essentially a review of the final chapter...

The important influence exercised by the glandular structures on the human organism has long been recognized. Perhaps the earliest evidence of this is the study of alterations d...

Opium is a drug which has been in quite common use for many centuries. According to E. M. Holmes of London, it was known to Theophrastus nearly three hundred years before the Ch...

Never until very recently has any great importance been attached to the psychoses due solely to age or much interest manifested in them. These forms of insanity in the majority...

Ancient history contains numerous references to epilepsy. The "Morbus sacer" of the Romans was apparently a subject of great interest to Hippocrates,[325] who wrote, over two th...

In 1896 Kraepelin first definitely outlined his views on dementia praecox, to which he assigned hebephrenia, although he did not at the time include katatonia in his delimitatio...

The origin of pellagra is shrouded in mystery. Although first described by Casal, the name now attached to the disease was suggested by Frappoli in 1771. He referred to it as of...

Sufficient weight has not been attached heretofore to the important influence of cerebral arteriosclerosis in the production of mental diseases. Unquestionably it has been a com...

4. Psychoses in which trauma is merely a contributing factor: a. General paralysis, with or without traumatic stigmata; b. Manic-depressive and other transitory psychoses, catat...

An elaborate classification was also officially adopted by the Royal College of Physicians of England[142] about the same time. This recognized seven varieties of mania, seven o...

When the American Psychiatric Association first approached the problem of formulating a definite scheme for the collection of statistical data relating to mental diseases it was...

In presenting a preliminary consideration of the subject of mental diseases as a public health problem the author is actuated by no other motive than that of stimulating the und...

Traumatic affections of the nervous system have been recognized in a general way for centuries, although the psychoses resulting directly from injuries have been given very litt...