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Title: Alienist and neurologist.
Year: 1913 (1910s)
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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)

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n. During the period of conval-escence from the operation, which took place favorably,no seizures occurred, and the patient returned to her homein the country, quite well satisfied that the operationwould effect a permanent cure. (A neurectomy mighthave sufficed to satisfy here.—Ed.) With the subsequent history of the case, Dr. Mearsstates he is not familiar. A dissection of the part removedwith the exception of a possible swelling of the mediannerve and its digital branches there was no evidencemicroscopically of any morbid condition which couldhave caused the intense pain complained of by the patient. These cases take their places in the mind with hysteri-cal joints (false ankyloses, etc.) and phantom tumors towhich Dr. Mears alludes and about which others havepreviously written. A phantom tumor in Ewingsrecord disappeared under anaesthesia to which the patient Illustrations of Happy Though Insane.—Pub-lished in May number of this magazine but inadvertentlyomitted by the editor.
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The Above Homelike Appearance of other days isnow more common in institutions for the insane for theentertainment of elderly and middle aged ladies from thefarms, of a past generation, than for present day farmlady denizens. These and the quiltings and other similar mutual as-semblages of the housewives tended to interrupt the monot-ony of the farm life and thus to postpone and drive awaymelancholy so common to life on the farm in women. The picture is from an illustrative report with otherphotos of the Spring Grove Hospital for the Insane ofMaryland, by Dr. Percy Wade, Medical Superintendent. We wish other superintendents and managers wouldpresent more special illustrative features of their institu-tions. Such pictures of internal hospital life disarm sus-picion. More or less of it is done by many hospitalswhich we purpose showing from time to time, duringthe present and coming years. This and the following illustrations of insane hospitallife should have appeared to illustrate the a

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