File:Alienist and neurologist. (1919) (14740172306).jpg

Identifier: alienistneurolog4041unse (find matches)
Title: Alienist and neurologist.
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors:
Subjects: Neurology Psychology Psychiatry Psychology, Clinical Forensic Psychiatry
Publisher: St. Louis, Mo. : Ev.E. Carreras, Steam Printer, Publisher and Binder
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
can Journal of Syphilis. Page One Hundred Sixty-Five » THE ALIENIST AND NEUROLOGIST Treatment of War Psycho-Neuroses.—Major Hurst, Briiish MedicalJournal, in a cinematograph demonstration illustrating the essentials of treatment ofsoldiers and discharged soldiers suffering from functional nervous disorders, whichillustrated the development of methods of treatment pursued, asserts that increasedexperience enables cures to be performed in a few hours or days in cases which formerlyrequired weeks to completely eradicate all symptoms. This applies especially to hys-terical paralysis, contractures, speech defects, such as mutism, aphonia and stammering,and tremors and tics. Hypnotism is no longer used, and very rarely such adjuncts of suggestion aselectricity or etherization; these are replaced with vigorous persuasion and manipula-tion, followed, when convalescent, by graduated interesting out-door employment, insteadof lounging about the wards and corridors of large general hospitals.
Text Appearing After Image:
Page One Hundred Sixt.v-Six BOOK REVIEWS. An Introduction to Neurology. By C. Judson Herrick, Ph. D., Professorof Neurology in the University of Chicago. Second Edition, Reset. 1 2mo of394 pages, 140 illustrations. Philadelphia and London: W. B. SaundersCompany, 1918. Cloth, $2.00 net. Although this is an introduction to the study of Neurology, it is not by any meansto be understood as a primer in the general acceptation of that term, since it not onlycontains the fundamental principles and generally accepted facts, so far as known,relative to the anatomy, physiology and histology of the nervous system, but discusses,often in detail, various theories and hypotheses in the realm of the, as yet, unknown,if not unknowable. Each chapter is closed with a summary which is valuable for fixing the essentialfacts m the mind, as well for future reference, and followed by a bibliography of theliterature bearing upon the subject matter which is invaluable to those wishing to makea further—possi

Note About Images