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A Few Remarks on the Registration of Nurses and the Nurses Registration Bill from the Mental Nursing Point of View
Authors: Thomson D. G.
Published: August 2008

It must be gratifying to us that our Association has in a great measure solved for itself the problem of registration which is now agitating the nursing world and divided it into two hostile camps—those for and those against registration.
The After-care of Friendless Patients Discharged from Asylums, as provided for by the Scottish Probationary Procedure
Authors: Johnstone J. Carlyle
Published: August 2008

BY the Act 25 and 26 Vict. cap. 54, sect. 16, the General Board of Lunacy, Scotland, may grant authority for the liberation on trial or probation of any lunatic from any asylum for such time and under such regulations as the Board may consider necessary or proper, and by the Act 29 and 30 Vict. cap. 51, sect. 8, every pauper lunatic who is discharged on probation shall remain subject to inspection by the Commissioners during the period of probation, and it shall not be lawful for the parish council to take any such pauper lunatic off the poor roll, or to alter the conditions on which probationary discharge was granted, without the sanction of the Board, during the period of probation.
Need of Care of the Weak-minded in Infancy and Childhood
Authors: Rayner Henry
Published: August 2008

The necessity for special care of infants and young children afflicted with defective brain development has been increasingly recognised in recent years, but the modes for providing this care are as yet little developed.
The Educational Treatment of Young Epileptics
Authors: Shuttleworth G. E.
Published: August 2008

I have thought that at the present time, when there is a prospect of systematic school provision being made for epileptic children in accordance with recent legislation, the attention of this Association might usefully be called to the necessities of the case.
Modern Witchcraft: A Study of a Phase of Paranoia
Authors: Norman Conolly
Published: August 2008

When any belief tends to reappear in various races from age to age and under various conditions of civilisation and education, it acquires a special interest because it probably depends on some general trait in the mental organisation of our species.
Science and a Future Life
Authors: Graham William
Published: August 2008

Normal humanity has never taken kindly to the idea of annihilation. As far back as anthropology has pushed its researches traces of a belief in a survival after death have been found. We have but to open the tombs of the men of the neolithic period to discover idols, mystic symbols, traces of food and clothes, with which our far-off progenitors sought to express their belief that the dead still lived and were open to the ministries of pious affection. The truth is, the thought of annihilation is too abstract to be intelligible to the primitive mind. Wordsworth's “little maid” could not conceive death except in terms of life, and her inability is a universal mark of undeveloped thought. Savage man has no knowledge of death as a fact or process of nature, only as the product of some hidden and malevolent energy which, though it may destroy, cannot annihilate. The dead are not really dead. They haunt the spot which on earth they loved, mingle with the dreams, and affect for good or evil the fortunes of the living. Out of this instinctive impulse, through the growth of mental faculties and the reaction of environment, have been gradually evolved the lofty hopes of religion and philosophy.
Mental Unsoundness and Mental Disease in a Local Prison
Authors: Cotton William
Published: August 2008

Excluding debtors (who are non-criminal prisoners), a local prison is one containing persons charged with an offence awaiting trial, or convicted and serving a sentence of imprison ment of less than two years. A convict prison contains con victed prisoners sentenced to three or more years' penal servitude. All prisoners sentenced to penal servitude have been while awaiting trial, or are for a short time after sentence, detained in a local prison, and thus come within the cognisance of the medical officer there.
Morison Lectures.—Lecture IV
Authors: Macpherson John
Published: August 2008

In the two previous lectures of this course the subject of “Variation in its Relation to the Origin of Physical Malformations, of Congenital Mental Defect, and of the Neuroses, such as Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Alcoholism,” was considered. The correlation between congenital malformation and congenital mental defect was pointed out. The relation of the neuroses to one another, their heredity, and their distribution throughout mankind of all races, was insisted on. It was also shown that all these affections are genetic in origin and independent of so-called causes or influences due to the environment. For the environment is not, and cannot be, constant while the manifestations in question are, so far as we know, universal. It was further shown that congenital malformation and congenital mental defect are due to inherent processes, the nature of which is at present unknown, acting within the fertilised ovum. It is, moreover, certain that these processes must be independent of the environment of the elements contributed by either parent, of the immediate state of health of the parents or, with certain exceptions such as injuries or special disease, of the uterine environment. It is not asserted that diseases affecting the mother or even, on rare occasions, specific affections of the father may not deleteriously influence the growing embryo in utero. The fact remains, however, that in the majority of instances these defects are hereditary, that they may pass over several members of the same family, and in the case of animals over several members of the same litter—nay, even that they pass over one or more generations to re-appear in a succeeding one. In face of such facts, it is useless to speculate upon physical causes while the great innate cause remains obscure.
A Contribution to the Study of Disorders of Visual Association in Insanity
Authors: Cole Sydney J.
Published: August 2008

The mental processes in relation to vision are disordered in many cases of mental disease, particularly in such as present the symptom of disorientation. The normal individual orientates himself in his environment mainly by the help of definite trains of visual ideas—such, for example, as are aroused in us when we glance round our room, go about the house, or take a walk out of doors. If a patient in an asylum thinks he is in his own home, and mistakes the attendants for his relatives, he is clearly unable to see how the present environment differs in aspect from the former environment in which he imagines himself. While from one point of view such a disability presents itself as a failure of memory, from another it appears as a form of mind-blindness, demonstrable by appropriate tests, and resembling in some ways the mind-blindness resulting from circumscribed coarse damage of the brain.
The Nursing Staff at the Metropolitan Asylum, Leavesden; Notes upon a Scheme of Promotion
Authors: Elkins Frank Ashby
Published: August 2008

Since October, 1902, there has been in operation at the Metropolitan Asylum, Leavesden, a system of promotion for nurses and attendants.
On the Etiology of Asylum Dysentery
Authors: Knobel W. Bernard
Published: August 2008

The term “dysentery” includes many diseases which, though clinically and pathologically similar, are widely different in their etiological and epidemiological characters.
The Pathology of Four Cases of Epileptic Idiocy
Authors: Baird Harvey
Published: August 2008

The following cases of gross cerebral lesion occurred in epileptic idiots:

CASE 1.—S. J— was admitted to Leavesden Asylum in December, 1897, ret. 17. He was then noted to be a confirmed epileptic idiot. He died in March, 1904, of ulcerative colitis. During his residence there he had frequent severe fits.
Cortical Paralysis of Touch [Die Kortikak Tastlähmung], (Mortals, f. Psychiatr., February, 1906.) Kramer
Authors: Ireland William W.
Published: August 2008

It is doubtful if there be a special sense enabling us to recognise the form and consistency of objects independent of other sensations such as pain, pressure, weight, heat, electricity. Nevertheless, cases in which there was greater impairment of the feeling of touch than of the other modes of common sensation have been described under the title of “astereognosis.” To the consiceration of this subject, Dr. Franz Kramer has contributed a paper of thirty pages. He describes ten cases very carefully tested by himself. These are too long to reproduce, but we gather the following considerations from his observations and citations from other writers on the subject. It seems probable, that the loss of sensibility to touch is but a degree in the impairment of common sensation. Where to fix this degree is difficult owing to the complicated feelings and motions used to ascertain the outward form of objects. There are cases described in which the loss of tactile sensibility was much greater in proportion than the derangements of other qualities of common sensation. Perhaps similar inequalities of relation exist in normal persons.
Amentia and Dementia: A Clinico-Pathological Study
Authors: Bolton Joseph Shaw
Published: August 2008

The description of the varieties of dementia which is contained in the present section is based on the clinical classification of 728 cases of mental disease referred to in Part I of the present paper (Journal of Mental Science, April 1905).
On the Treatment of Cases of Acute Insanity by Rest in Bed in the Open
Air
Authors: Wiglesworth J.
Published: August 2008

Having been engaged during the past three years in treating cases of
active insanity by rest in bed in the open air, I am able to add my
testimony to that of Dr. Easterbrook, as published in the last number of the
Journal of Mental Science, as to the value of
this method of treatment in suitable cases.
Three Cases of Juvenile General Paralysis
Authors: McDowall Colin F. F.
Published: August 2008

In the following brief notes nothing is attempted beyond placing on
record three undoubted examples of this interesting disease, and thus adding
to an ever increasing list of cases.
A Philosophy of Psychiatry
Authors: Hart Bernard
Published: August 2008

“What we gain from speculative philosophy is not so much answers to questions which common sense universally asks, as the knowledge that these questions themselves, since they are based on untrue concepts, must vanish away.”—Paul Möller.
Asylum Officials: is it necessary or advisable for so many to live on the premises?
Authors: Elkins Frank Asiiby
Published: August 2008

Asylum officials may be roughly divided into three groups. In the first group are included artisans and others who are paid weekly wages, have no emoluments, and live in their own homes away from the asylum, whilst in the second and much larger group are included nurses and attendants (estimated by the Commissioners in Lunacy to number in England and Wales more than ten thousand persons), laundrymaids, housemaids, kitchen-folk and others, who, in addition to their monthly paid wages, usually have the emoluments of board and lodging. In the third group are included chief officers and others who are provided with houses, cottages and apartments on the asylum estate. The weekly paid or artisan class are, as a rule, well paid, contented, and of long service. They do not lead a cloistered life, and it is not with them that this article deals. As to the second group, the public now happily recognises the unselfish labours of the large army of workers in direct attendance upon the insane throughout the country, and it is not necessary to enlarge upon their usefulness to the community. Their hours of duty are very long, their pay is not large, and the restrictions and disadvantages under which they work are very great. Probably all asylums have allowed a certain number of these officials to board and lodge off the premises. Some asylums may be more favourably situated than others, and thus have done more in this direction, but the writer thinks that at all asylums more could and should be done towards de-cloistering the staff. In an asylum constructed to meet the circumstances and placed in suitable surroundings, the sane resident population could be reduced to very moderate proportions. It is urged that when the abnormally long and trying hours of duty are over, as many officials as possible should be altogether freed from institutional restraints. The cost of the erection of asylums would be decidedly lessened if they were built to provide accommodation only for (i) the patients, (2) such members of the staff as must of necessity be boarded and lodged on the premises, and (3) such officials as must have houses provided for them on the estate. Has any asylum authority ever prepared an estimate showing the cost of the erection and upkeep of quarters, and of the provision of necessities and conveniences of every description specially made for members of the staff who do not need, for any particular reason, to be provided with lodgings on the asylum estate?
Katatonia: in Relation to Dementia Præcox
Authors: Mickle W. Julius
Published: August 2008

In youth, divided into its pubescent and adolescent periods, and, in relation to our subject, taking only the forms of mental disease that may come into question or relevance, besides idiocy's minor degrees, the chief to mention are simple dementia, hallucinatory, and confusional cases; melancholic, maniacal, and “transitory” attacks; periodical and circular psychoses; katatonia, hebephrenia, the paranoias; hereditary forms marked chiefly by impulse or moral perversion; cases on “mental besetment” (obsessive) basis. Many other forms of insanity, of course, exist in youth.
Report on Thirty-one Cases of Maniacal-Depressive Insanity which came under treatment in the Down District Asylum during the year ending December 31 st, 1907
Authors: Cotter James
Published: August 2008

For the purpose of this report the definition of Maniacal-Depressive Insanity as laid down by Kraepelin has been adopted.
The Legal Duties and Responsibilities of the Medical Profession in Matters of Lunacy
Authors: Webb T. Prout
Published: August 2008

The object of this paper is an endeavour to suggest for the consideration of the medical profession certain aspects of their legal duties and responsibilities in matters of lunacy.
On the Treatment of the Insane in the great General Hospitals
Authors: Urquhart A. R.
Published: August 2008

This afternoon we have a wide field to traverse, and it is necessary, therefore, to select certain notable features for discussion, to omit much that might be said. I pray you excuse me if this discourse proves somewhat curt and dogmatic in dealing with the placement of the insane and the present position of psychiatry. Both are really in a state of flux, and we can only arrive at conclusions as provisional findings, to the best of our knowledge and belief, still requiring investigation and confirmation. That, of course, applies to the whole range of medicine as a science and as an art.
On the Certification of Mental Defectives as proposed by the Royal Commission
Authors: Donkin H. B.
Published: August 2008

The recent Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble Minded was occupied with two main subjects of inquiry. First, the existing methods of dealing with idiots and epileptics, and with imbecile, feeble-minded or defective persons not certified under the Lunacy Laws. Second, the constitution, jurisdiction and working of the Commission in Lunacy, and other Lunacy Authorities. The Commissioners were requested also to report on any amendment of the law which should appear desirable in relation to these subjects.
The Urgent Necessity of Helping Mental Convalescents
Authors: Jones Robert
Published: August 2008

Few subjects of late years have so much engaged public attention as the care and treatment of the mentally infirm, and the pen of almost every writer and critic has been busy over this topic.
The Histological Evidence that Toxins reach the Spinal Cord via the Spinal Roots; with Special Reference to Plasma-Cells
Authors: Orr David , Rows R. G.
Published: August 2008

In May, 1907, we published the results of our first series of experiments dealing with the question of toxic absorption along the lymphatic paths of nerves and the effects upon the spinal cord, medulla, and pons.
Lunacy Administration in Cape Colony
Authors: Greenlees T. Duncan
Published: August 2008

The subject of lunacy administration in our Colonies, and in other countries, is one not so well known as it should be to those of us who are specially interested in these matters in this country, and I was pleased to see recently articles in our Journal by Drs. Eric Sinclair and Beattie Smith treating of this subject as found in Australia. If our Editors published a series of articles referring to lunacy administration, as met with in our Colonies and foreign countries, these might prove useful when our own Lunacy Act undergoes amendment.
France
Authors: Semelaigne René
Published: August 2008

During the year 1909 the scientific output has been highly satisfactory. Its peaceful termination was in marked contrast to the discomforts we have already experienced during the present year owing to the floods in Paris. The members of the Société Medico-Psychologique were not able to meet in January, and the Maison de Santé d'Ivry, founded by Esquirol, was suddenly inundated, an event which entailed the hurried removal of the patients to another establishment.
Italy
Authors: Baroncini Luigi
Published: August 2008

The psychiatrical works published in Italy during the year just ended have been numerous and in some cases very voluminous. Some are well compiled, some arrive also at interesting conclusions, but nearly all either deal with questions too special or too minute, or leave the latter aside and occupy themselves with neurological questions only. The former, the clinical works, concern themselves in general with special symptoms which have no importance in assisting the knowledge of the nosography and psycho-pathology of the different diseases, or else illustrate clinical cases which are remarkable by their rarity. In any case they represent rather contributions to current ideas amongst the leading men. It is, then, impossible to give a resumé of these works; we should only be able to quote their titles, which would be objectless. I have no better news to give regarding the progress of pathological anatomy. Dr. Perusini, of the Psychiatrical Clinic of Rome, proclaims, in a powerful article, the necessity of propagating the anatomico-pathological ideas of the school of Kraepelin; but up to now the histo-pathological study of the nervous system has been pursued without uniformity of method, as also without precision of aim. Only in Rome, thanks especially to Drs. Cerletti and Perusini, they have organised an anatomico-pathological section in the Clinic of Tamburini, and there they are trying to put new life into this highly important branch of psychiatry. But the greater portion of Italian psychiatrical works relates to neurology, a branch which promises easier and more brilliant success. In my last contribution I drew attention to the tendency amongst Italian psychiatrists to direct themselves rather to neurological studies. This tendency had its culminating point and its official sanction in the foundation of the Society of Neurology, which gathers around it all the personnel of the psychiatrical clinics.
Spain
Authors: Coroleu W.
Published: August 2008

The Minister of War has done for psychiatry what no Secretary for Public Instruction has ever done. In the Spanish universities psychiatry is not taught at all. Now it has become compulsory for army doctors to take up some special branch of medical work, and psychiatry is included. It is sad that such an important subject should be optional, but it is better than being ignored altogether. Dr. Fernandez Victorio, a well-known military alienist, who has distinguished himself by publishing a book on Insanity in the Spanish Army, has been appointed to give a psychiatrical course at St. Bandilius Lunatic Asylum at Barcelona, where he is instructing some military students. As in former years a few students of forensic medicine, during their ordinary medical curriculum, have attended some lectures at the same asylum. This is all the psychiatrical equipment they are provided with for their practice. No remedy for this reprehensible state of things is being suggested.
The International Committee for the Study of the Causes and Prophylaxis of Mental Disease
Authors: Smith R. Percy
Published: August 2008

In view of the impending meetings of the Fourth International Congress on the Care of the Insane, to be held in Berlin from October 3rd to 7th, 1910, it seems desirable that the members of the Medico-Psychological Association and other readers of the Journal of Mental Science should be able to have in print a record to the present date of the proceedings of the International Committee, which was originally appointed at the Congress held at Milan in 1906 with the object of studying the causes and prophylaxis of mental disease.
The Infective Foci in General Paralysis and Tabes Dorsalis
Authors: Robertson W. Ford
Published: August 2008

In previous papers it has been contended by Dr. Douglas McRae, Dr. Dods Brown and myself, that in cases of general paralysis there are special bacterial infective foci in the nasopharyngeal and buccal mucous membranes, and that these infective foci are of importance in the pathogenesis of the disease; Dr. McRae and I have also maintained that in cases of tabes dorsalis there are similar infective foci in the genito-urinary tract. In this paper I wish to deal with some further investigations, the results of which give additional support to these views. In the fifteen minutes at my disposal it is impossible for me to describe these investigations in detail. I can only indicate their chief results and state some of the conclusions that they seem to me to warrant. All the evidence that I can lay before the meeting is shown under the ten microscopes on the tables.
A Bacteriological Investigation into General Paralysis of the Insane
Authors: Lind Henry
Published: August 2008

The very interesting publications by Dr. Ford Robertson and his pupils on the discovery of a bacillus as the cause of general paralysis of the insane have given rise to the following research.
Eugenics and Degeneracy
Authors: Ewart C. T.
Published: August 2008

The object of this paper is to consider whether it is necessary or advisable to introduce ordinances for the discouragement of parenthood on the part of the “unfit,” and the encouragement of large families on the part of the “fit,” in fact the eugenic principle, and to those who believe that the only true cure of insanity is its prevention, the subject must be of vast importance.
Biochemical Examination of the Cerebrospinal Fluid in Cases of Mental Disease; Essay for which was awarded the Bronze Medal of the Medico-Psychological Association, 1910
Authors: Morton Hugh
Published: August 2008

Within recent years it has become a recognised practice to perform lumbar puncture on cases suffering from cerebro-spinal disease; the practical value of the procedure is generally admitted as an aid to diagnosis; and in some diseases, such as tetanus and cerebro-spinal meningitis, the operation is resorted to for therapeutic purposes. It must, however, be admitted that it is only in such diseases of the cerebro-spinal system as are due to the presence of well-recognised organisms that the diagnostic value of lumbar puncture approaches scientific accuracy, in such diseases, for example, as tubercular meningitis, cerebro-spinal fever, pneumococcal meningitis, and sleeping-sickness. The value to be attached to an examination of the fluid for the syphilitic reaction is minimised when one considers that for this test the blood-serum is preferable.
The Wassermann Reaction: A More Reliable Technique
Authors: Gilmour Walter
Published: August 2008

Recently, Browning, Cruickshank and McKenzie have described a new method of performing the Wassermann reaction. It depends on the fact that a syphilitic serum in the presence of an emulsion of lecithin plus cholesterin absorbs much more complement than in the presence of an equivalent amount of an emulsion of lecithin alone, whereas a negative serum absorbs equal amounts with both emulsions.
Syphilis and Congenital Mental Defect
Authors: Chislett C. G. A.
Published: August 2008

With the exception of cretinism, mongolism and amaurotic idiocy, and juvenile general paralysis, it may be said that the only classification of congenital mental deficiency is one based on the degree of mental defect.
The Treatment of Puerperal Insanity with Antistreptococcic Serum
Authors: Raw Nathan
Published: August 2008

A case of puerperal insanity, although distressing in its symptoms, is always welcomed by the asylum physician, for the reason that he knows in all probability the patient will make a good recovery.
The Personal Equation in Alienism
Authors: Drapes Thomas
Published: August 2008

I feel that some kind of apology is due for my venturing to bring before a society which concerns itself mainly with practical questions what I fear will be regarded as a decidedly unpractical paper. Still, it may not be without advantage once in a way to step aside from the more arduous path of observational or experimental investigation in the region of psychiatry with its exacting conditions, and view things from a more general standpoint. And, while confessedly it may lead to no practical outcome, if by challenging some acknowledged views, and raising a breeze of controversy, however gentle, which may ruffle the quiescent surface of the pool of accepted opinion, it should at least suggest some grounds for a reconsideration of certain important questions connected with psychology and psychiatry, the object of the writer will be achieved.
Mental Symptoms in Association with Choreiform Disorders
Authors: Mapother Edward
Published: August 2008

Mental symptoms almost constantly accompany choreiform movements whatever the origin of the latter, and cases exhibiting such movements are fairly common in asylums.
The Deviation of Complement in Cases of So-called Idiopathic Epilepsy
Authors: Garnett G. H.
Published: August 2008

The word “epilepsy” is used to describe a group of signs and symptoms which are associated with a disease that primarily affects the nervous system. We find grouped together under this name several diseased conditions which, so far as their clinical manifestations are concerned, bear a common relationship, but differ in regard to their exciting causes.
The Classification of Insanity
Authors: Turner John
Published: August 2008

Before attempting a classification, it is desirable to define what we exactly mean by insanity. It is not an easy matter. Who is to say where the dividing line is to be drawn between the sane and the insane? The one state passes insensibly into the other, and a division, which may be valid in certain circumstances, may not be so in others.
The Cerebro-Spinal Fluid in Certain Mental Conditions
Authors: Boyd William
Published: August 2008

There is a constant endeavour in psychiatry, as in other branches of medical science, to distinguish between organic and functional disorder. Year by year, in most of these other branches, the organic group becomes larger, the functional group smaller. But unfortunately the same cannot be said for psychiatry. When all is said and done, the term “functional disease” is largely a cloak for ignorance. Where there is disease there must be something to show for it, but if the changes are so subtle as to escape detection, we at once label the condition “functional.” General paralysis was considered a functional disease until it was proved to have a very solid anatomo-pathological basis; indeed, until this proof was forthcoming it could hardly be said to exist as a definite entity at all. Until this process is extended to other forms of insanity, clear thinking in psychiatry is impossible. We are still far too prone to look only upon the mental side of the cases which come under our care, whereas we ought diligently to search for some physical causal factor that may be at work, and for corresponding physical changes that may give us a clue to such a factor.
An Inquiry into the Occurrence of ah Inherited Tendency to Insanity in the Insane of a Rural Population
Authors: Corson James Frederick
Published: August 2008

The important part played by heredity in the causation of insanity has long been recognised. Much has been written on the subject and investigations have frequently been made to show its influence. Owing to the complexity, variability and general indefinite character of insanity these inquiries have been mainly statistical. It is recognised that no form of insanity is of such definite and simple nature as to be readily available for study in its hereditary aspect by Mendelian methods. As has been repeatedly stated by various writers on the subject, it is not insanity, recognisable as such, that is inherited, but an abnormal nervous system liable to the development of the various conditions included in the term “insanity.”
Observations on a Case of Dementia Præcox
Authors: Parker James
Published: August 2008

The following case presents some important features from a diagnostic point of view, owing to its unusual onset and course, and the relative absence of initial symptoms indicative of the actual character of the psychosis.
Progress of Psychiatry in 1911
Authors: McDonald William
Published: August 2008

A distinguished Dutch neurologist, crossing the ocean recently, was asked to state the object of his visit to America. “I am bent on study,” he answered. “I wish to study nervous diseases among the most nervous people on earth.” Waiving the fact that nervousness and mental disease in America are to an overwhelming degree found among the foreign born element, and cannot, therefore, be truly attributed to American environment and influences, the allegation that America is a ripe field for the study of nervous disease must be acknowledged. Everywhere throughout the country attention is being called to the alarming increase in insanity in the past decade. Without doubt such disturbing reports take far too little count of the effect upon statistics of the wonderful advance in later times in accuracy of recognition and registration of insanity, and of the constantly increasing tendency to house, restrain and treat the subjects of mental disease.
A Review of the Congress of Alienists and Neurologists of French-Speaking Countries Held at Tunis, April 1St to 7Th, 1912
Authors: Jones Robert
Published: August 2008

From April 1st to the 7th this year the Twenty-second Annual Congress of Alienists and Neurologists of France and of French-speaking countries, consisting of a membership of about 300 adherents, was held in Tunis, and the writer attended as a delegate of the Medico-Psychological Association of Great Britain and Ireland. More than thirty institutions for the care and treatment of mental cases were associated with the Congress, and numerous delegates representing learned societies as well as foreign countries attended. The President of this year's Congress was Dr. Mabille, Medical Superintendent of the La Fond Asylum at La Rochelle; Dr. Arnaud, Physician to the Mental Hospital of Vanves (Seine) was Vice-President; and the General Secretary was Dr. Porot, the very able and energetic Physician to the French Hospital in Tunis. An important paper announced for discussion was by Dr. Régis, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Bordeaux, who contributed a very full and exhaustive paper upon the “Care of the Insane in the French Colonies and Dependencies,” with a review of their treatment in the adjoining colonies such as those of England and of Holland. Dr. Régis was assisted in his paper by Dr. Reboul, of Annam. Another paper was by Dr. Chavigny, Major of the French Army Medical Service, upon the “Mental and Nervous Symptoms associated with Malaria”— obviously one of considerable importance in view of the expansion of French Colonial Government; and a third paper by Dr. Dupré, one of the teachers and a Fellow of the University of Paris, was upon mental states arising from, and connected with, perversions of the natural instincts. Although these were the three main subjects, other papers connected with neurology or psychiatry were presented to the Congress for discussion, among them being—one upon “Goitrous Insanity” by Drs. Fraikin and Grenier de Cardenal, one relating to “Insanity and Renal Disease” by Dr. Beriel, one by Dr. Gelma on “Delusions of Persecution.” Other papers were by Drs. Petit, Mignot, Adam and Levassort. A valuable report upon an experimental study relating to the association of ideas in the Insane was presented jointly by Dr. Auguste Ley, Professor in the University of Brussels, also physician to the Mental Sanatorium at Fort-Jaco, Uccle, near Brussels, and Dr. Paul Menzerath of the same hospital laboratory. Another paper was by Dr. Levassort upon “Degeneracy in its Relation to Perverted Instincts,” and two others bore upon the same subject, viz., one by Dr. Berillon, relating to the influence of suggestion upon normal as contrasted with abnormal instincts, and the other by Dr. Simonin who related his experience in the French Army in regard to mental enfeeblement, a clinical and medico-legal study. A paper by Dr. Haury upon “Hooligans in the Army and their Rational Treatment,” formed a suitable complement to the chief paper of the day by Dr. Dupré.
Progress of Psychiatry in 1911
Authors: Coroleu W.
Published: August 2008

The Commission appointed by the County Board or Barcelona to inquire into the administration of S. Bandilius Lunatic Asylum has issued its report. The sad condition of matters therein revealed is an ample justification of the demand which the public had made for an inquiry. A medical inspector has been appointed to remedy the abuses.
Remarks on Death Certification and Registration
Authors: Coupland Sidney
Published: August 2008

I feel that some apology is needed from me for venturing to introduce for your consideration a subject which, however important from the standpoint of the national health, bears but little relation to the deeper scientific problems usually discussed at the meetings of this Association. I can only urge in excuse for my temerity the desirability of calling attention to the changes recently introduced in the registration of deaths with the object of obtaining greater uniformity in tabulation and consequently greater accuracy in vital statistics. The matter concerns every registered medical practitioner, whose statutory duty it is to furnish the information on which the Registrar-General builds up his instructive tables, and all must appreciate the endeavour to secure the object referred to. In asylums for the insane, where the death-rate is relatively very high, there is ample opportunity for supplying precise information, especially as in three out of four cases the cause of death is verified by post-mortem examination, thereby enhancing the reliability of the returns.
Morphino-Mania with Suggested Visual Hallucinations
Authors: Dwyer P. J.
Published: August 2008

P. G—, æt. 40, admitted January 9th, 1912, on a charge of assault; had been a sailor for many years, during which period he contracted the morphia habit. Since 1884 he had been taking the drug, gradually arriving at the stage previous to admission, when he was taking 15 gr. a day. The largest dose he ever took was 15 gr., followed in an hour by 10 gr.
Assistant Medical Officers in Asylums
Authors: Spence J. B.
Published: August 2008

The title of this brief paper will be familiar to many of you as the heading to letters which have recently appeared in several successive numbers of the British Medical Journal. Some of the letters have been signed with the full name of the writers, others with a pen name. They have all been characterised by moderation of language in the presentation of the case in which the writers and many others are deeply interested. For some time past I have felt strongly that something should be done to improve the position of assistant medical officers of asylums, and am in full accord with the work of the Committee of this Association, who have recently furnished an interim report upon this subject. A further report will doubtless soon be forthcoming upon the financial and social position of assistant medical officers, and it is this view of the case which I desire to place very briefly before you this afternoon.
Notes on 100 Mentally Defective Prisoners at Stafford
Authors: Smith M. Hamblin
Published: August 2008

The 100 cases were reported from Stafford Prison between the dates September 26th, 1911, and August 20th, 1912, i.e., a period of about eleven months. During this same period, there were received into Stafford prison 2807 males and 611 females (excluding debtors, and penal servitude prisoners who were sent to Stafford from other prisons). Some allowance would have to be made in these figures for the same individual having been received more than once during the period under review.
On Attempted Suicide, with an Analysis of 1,000 Consecutive Cases
Authors: East W. Norwood
Published: August 2008

A considerable number of men are received annually into Brixton prison remanded, or committed for trial, on a charge of attempted suicide. They are all specially examined as to their mental condition, and a large number of them are remanded for that purpose. From the plentiful clinical material thus studied these remarks were prepared whilst I was on the medical staff of that prison, and I have to thank the Prison Commissioners for their permission to publish them.
The Presidential Address, on the Prevention of the Insanities, delivered at the Seventy-second Annual Meeting of the Medico-Psychological Association, held in London on July 16th and 17th, 1913
Authors: Chambers James
Published: August 2008

Ladies and Gentlemen,—I thank you unaffectedly for the great, and, I feel, undeserved honour that you have done me in making choice of your President for the coming year.
The Bacteriological Examination of the Urine in some Cases of General Paralysis
Authors: White E. Barton
Published: August 2008

The occurrence of micro-organisms in the urine is well known to be associated with a variety of pathological conditions, among which mental diseases have been included. A definite connection between urinary bacteria and insanity, however, does not seem to have been made out, the subject being even more obscure than the relation of the intestinal flora to mental disease, which has been much more frequently investigated.
Consciousness as a Truth-organ considered, or Contributions to Logical Psychology
Authors: Davies W. G.
Published: August 2008

The first class of objects to be viewed as producing a distinct order of consciousness embraces the fundamental sensation, and its attendant sensations. But perhaps it is necessary to explain before entering upon the task of analysis, that it would be foreign to the nature of Logical Psychology to enumerate, and enlarge upon the objects contained in each class of that nature. The demands of that science are fully answered when we have pointed out that a certain class of objects—though we may know little else about it—marks out a distinct variety of intellectual power. Let it be remembered then, that it is the aim of these contributions to describe—not the objects of consciousness, even when these are mental in their character—but, exclusively, the cognition of them. The following table will, it is trusted, clearly determine the boundaries of that department of psychology to which these researches are confined.
A Case of Homicidal Mania, without Disorder of the Intellect
Authors: Robertson C. Lockhart , Finch W. Corbin
Published: August 2008

I. History of the Case. G. T., No. 279, age 30, was admitted into the Sussex Lunatic Asylum under an order from the Secretary of State, on the 14th November, 1859.

He was transferred (as belonging to the parish of Brighton) from the Kent County Asylum. I received the following letter respecting him, from Dr. Huxley, the Medical Superintendent of that asylum. It very clearly and accurately relates the previous history of the case.
The Morison Lectures, 1913.—The Serum and Cerebrospinal Fluid Reactions and Signs of General Paralysis
Authors: Robertson George M.
Published: August 2008

It is sometimes cast up as a reproach to those engaged in psychiatry that zeal in research, and progress in knowledge in this subject have not kept pace with other departments of medicine, but I now describe some valuable additions to our knowledge which have all been made during the last decade on the diagnostic signs of general paralysis of the insane. Although the full title of this disease is a perpetual reminder of the fact that the credit of its discovery belongs to physicians engaged in asylum practice, it is desirable to drop the final qualification, and refer to it simply as general paralysis.
Some Doubtful Cases of So-Called General Paralysis of the Insane
Authors: Robinson W.
Published: August 2008

Cases of mental disease which give definite mental symptoms and physical signs of the condition recognised and at present called general paralysis of the insane, and which, moreover give a Wassermann reaction, seem to be invariably due to syphilis, and to contain in many cases spirochætes in the cerebral substance. Out of seven such cases of well-marked general paralysis, which on death were examined for spirochætes by Dr. McIntosh, six cases showed the presence of spirochætes. The seventh case was regarded as doubtful.
The Biological Conception of Insanity
Authors: Turner John
Published: August 2008

I often hear it said that pathological anatomy has proved a failure in the attempt to solve the problems of insanity.
Healing and Training (Heil und Bildung)
Authors: Neuer Alexander , Drapes T.
Published: August 2008

“He, verily, did not hit the target of truth who took for his missile the phrase, the Desire for Existence; not the Desire for Existence— such is my teaching—no, the Wish for Power!”
The Rôle of Hypnotics in Mental Diseases, with Indications for their Selection and Employment
Authors: Eager Richard
Published: August 2008

Sleep, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down and steep my senses in forgetfulness?

I feel I should preface my paper on “The Rôle of Hypnotics in Mental Diseases” by the statement that you will merely find in it a collection and corroboration of well-known facts. These facts, however, have been brought together in a form in which I have not been able to find them elsewhere, viz., such as will aid in pointing out the indications for the employment of the different hypnotics, and the types of mental disease in which certain of the drugs appear to be especially useful.
Some Introductory Remarks on the Organisation of Research
Authors: Orr David
Published: August 2008

In opening this subject, I wish to give first a few preliminary words of explanation. The object of this paper is to raise the points germane to the organisation of research. Organisation, to my mind, is the most important point in research, and the only foundation upon which successful investigation can rest. Anything which follows will be clearly understood to be merely an opinion expressed in order to open discussion and invite free criticism. The illustrations given of the difficulties attending investigation in our subject are nothing more than examples: they are not meant to be regarded as definite lines along which research should be conducted, but rather to be read in the sense of evidence brought forward in favour of a serious and co-ordinated effort on the part of those who would attempt to discover the pathogenesis of morbid psychology and neurology.
Occasional Notes on the Mental Deficiency Act
Authors: Donkin Bryan
Published: August 2008

The purpose of this article is to review briefly a few of the many questions that have arisen directly or indirectly out of the interest taken of late years in the matter of the care and control of the feeble-minded, and to comment on some of the aspects of the legislative measure, known as the “Mental Deficiency Act,” which has ultimately resulted from that interest. Some reflections by the way on this subject, about which at the present moment there is necessarily but little practical activity, may, I trust, be regarded as not wholly inopportune. In offering to the readers of this Journal the following remarks on some difficulties that have been raised regarding the interpretation and working of the new Act, and in noting certain misconceptions and more or less irrelevant discussions that seem to have obscured the practical side of the subject, I have but the excuse of a long-continued interest in the matter of the due recognition of mental failure in all its varieties, and of my personal experience, gathered from the study of criminals, touching the part played by mental defect or disorder as a factor in the production of crime. These notes, which are at least meant to be practical, will therefore tend to circle chiefly round the questions of the actual diagnosis of such mental defect in persons of all ages as is now officially registered under the term “mental deficiency,” and of the relation that seems to exist between mental defect generally and criminality.
A Contribution to the Study of Epilepsia tarda, or Senile Epilepsy, and of Arteriosclerotic Dementia [Contributo allo studio della epilessia tarda e della demenza arteriosclerotica]. (Rivista di Patologia nervosa e mentale, December, 1914)
Authors: Adams J. Barfield
Published: August 2008

The term, epilepsia tarda, is applied to the epileptic phenomena occurring in advanced age. A few authors distinguish between epilepsia tarda and senile epilepsy, understanding by the first that form of the disease which is said to appear about the thirtieth year, and by the second that which occurs after 60 years of age.
Nomadism, or the Wandering Impulse, with Special Reference to Heredity. (Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1915.)
Authors: Ellis Havelock
Published: August 2008

This is the second of the author's studies on the “feebly inhibited,” and in the preface he justifies the use of that term, on the ground that, while the term “mind” could doubtless be stretched to cover the emotional phenomena he is dealing with, it seems best to consider the hereditary basis of the emotions separately. “The chief problem in administering society is that of disordered conduct; conduct is controlled by emotions, and the quality of the emotions is strongly tinged by the hereditary constitution.”