The Medical Fortnightly Volume 6, No. 3 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...their visiting committees are neat little comedies. These visits please the superintendent, they are never unexpected, as they have regular visiting and meeting times. Yet, but a visit at night without warning or at meal time would change the aspect. As ordinarily practiced hospital inspectors are simply valueless. Every doctor laughs at them. The reason is the boards do not know their business and what is more they do not know that they do not know. We need a training school for hospital managers. Now as to appointment of the physician. The appointments are not governed by the scientific records of the men. Mitchell would stand on that alone if he had to be limited to one form of knowledge of a candidate, And in any case it would influence him largely. For a physician for an insane hospital he would ask first for a large general hospital experience, for ample knowledge of psychology and patholdgy. Then, what books or papers on insanity the man had written, whether these were fresh with new thought or made up of vague pilferings from better brains. The hospital reports do not indicate appointments are made on these grounds. Frankly speaking these hospitals do not keep treatment or scientific product on the front line of medical advance, Where, we ask, are the reports of scientific study, or of the psychology and pathology of your patients? Where are the replies to your questions as to heredity, marriages, the mental disorders of races, the influence of malarial locations, of seasons, of great elevations, all the psychological riddles of a new land, a forming breed, never weary of quickening the pace, of inventing new means of hurry-rentless workers? The endless plea Is of overwork in extenuation of the charge of scientific unproductiveness; that serious sym...