I.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME LXV

JULY, 1908.

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: HOPEFUL AND DISCOURAGING ASPECTS

OF THE PSYCHIATRIC OUTLOOK. Charles P. Bancroft....

II. PSYCHIATRY AS A PART OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE. Henry M.

Hurd

.....

17

III.

PSYCHOLOGY IN RELATION TO PHYSIOLOGY, PSYCHIATRY AND

GENERAL MEDICINE. Wesley Mills....

25

IV. THE RÔLE OF THE MENTAL FACTORS IN PSYCHIATRY. Adolph

Meyer

39

V. RECEPTION HOSPITALS AND PSYCHOPATHIC WARDS IN STATE

Hospitals for THE INSANE. C. P. Bancroft.....

VI. RECEPTION HOSPITALS, PSYCHOPATHIC WARDS AND PSYCHO-

PATHIC HOSPITALS. M. S. Gregory.......

VII. EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATIONS INTO THE ETIOLOGY AND TREAT-

MENT OF PARESIS. John D. O'Brien....

VIII. SOME ORIGINS IN PSYCHIATRY, IV. Clarence B. Farrar.

IX. MENTAL STATE OF THE BLIND. Wm. Rush Dunton, Jr....

X. PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES:

........

103

AMERICAN MEDICO-PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. PROCEED-

INGS OF THE SIXTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING, CINCIN-

NATI, OHIO, MAY 12, 1908.....

113

Canada and Defective Immigration.-Reciprocity between

Nursing Staffs of Hospitals for the Insane and General Hos-

pitals. A Mind that Found Itself. The National Committee

of Mental Hygiene.-Resignation of Dr. Clouston.-The Phipps

Psychiatric Clinic at the Johns Hopkins Hospital..... .....186-203

XIII. ABSTRACTS AND EXTRACTS:

Psycho-Physical Investigations with the Galvanometer and

Pneumograph in Normal and Insane Individuals.-Ueber das
Verhalten des psychogalvanischen Phænomens beim Assozia-

tionsexperiment.-Some Aspects of Memory in the Insane.—

The Symptoms and Etiology of Mania.-Veronal Dermatitis.—

Observations on the Opsonic Index to Various Organisms in

Control and Insane Cases.-La pressione sanguigna nei malati

di mente. Il tempo di reazione semplice agli stimoli tattili ed

acustici negli stadi iniziali della demenza precoce.-Epilepsie et

ponction lombaire ...

XIV. BOOK REVIEWS:

.204-214

The Autopathography of C. W. Beers. A Mind that Found

Itself. By Clifford Whittingham Beers. (New York and

London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1908.)....

215

OCTOBER, 1908.

I. A PATHOLOgical Study of A CASE OF HYDROCEPHALUS.

T. Orton

Samuel

229

II. A CASE OF POLYNEURITIS, OF AUTOTOXIC ORIGIN, WITH KORSA-

KOW'S SYNDROME; WITH REPORT OF AUTOPSY AND MICRO-

SCOPICAL FINDINGS. Mary O'Malley and Shepherd Ivory

Franz

279

III. CLINICAL AND ANATOMICAL ANALYSIS OF 23 CASES OF INSANITY

ARISING IN THE SIXTH AND SEVENTH DECADES WITH SPECIAL

REFERENCE TO THE INCIDENCE OF ARTERIOSCLEROSIS AND

SENILE ATROPHY AND TO THE DISTRIBUTION OF CORTICAL PIG-

MENTS. E. E. Southard and H. W. Mitchell...............

293

IV. THE PROPER SIZE OF HOSPITALS FOR THE INSANE. Charles W.

Pilgrim

337

V. A VISIT TO THE PSYCHIATRIC CLINICS AND ASYLUMS OF THE

OLD LAND. Edward Ryan......

347

VI. NOTES ON SOME OF THE PSYCHIATRIC CLINICS AND ASYLUMS OF

GERMANY. C. K. Clarke.............

357

VII. NOTES AND COMMENT:

Responsibility of Physicians Signing Certificates of Insanity.

-Pellagra and Pellagrous Insanity in the United States.-

Extraordinary Longevity in an Insane Woman..

VIII. BOOK REVIEWS:

IX.

State of New York: State Commission in Lunacy. Nine-

teenth Annual Report.-Psychiatrie für Aerzte und Studierende

bearbeitet. By Dr. Th. Ziehen. (Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1908.)—

Index to 1180 Postmortems of the Insane, State Hospital for

the Insane, Norristown, Pa.

HALF-YEARLY SUMMARY

X. APPOINTMENTS AND RESIGNATIONS..

377

.385-389

.390-407

.408-413

JANUARY, 1909.

I. AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE MERITS OF THYROIDECTOMY AND

THYRO-LECITHin in the Treatment of CatATONIA. Henry

J. Berkley and Richard H. Follis..

II. THE KNEE-JERK IN PARESIS. Shepherd Ivory Franz.

III.

A CONSIDERATION OF THE NEED OF BETTER PROVISION FOR THE

TREATMENT OF MENTAL DISEASE IN ITS EARLY STAGE. J.

Montgomery Mosher

IV. TRAUMATIC AMNESIA.

W. W. Richardson..

415

471

499

509

V. IMBECILE, Criminal, or BOTH? Charles W. Hitchcock........ 519

ALCOHOLIC PSYCHOSES IN HOSPITALS FOR THE INSANE. James

M. Keniston

VI.

......

525

VII. NEUROPATHIC WARDS IN GENERAL HOSPITALS. Campbell Meyers 533

VIII. NOTES AND COMMENT:

Paresis as a Menace to Public Safety in Transportation.—

Maryland Psychiatric Society.-Annual Meeting of French

Alienists. Fourth Belgian Congress of Neurology and Psy-

chiatry.-Erratum

IX. BOOK REVIEWS:

.541-544

Samuel Mc-

(New York:

By N. Gier-

Religion and Medicine. The Moral Control of Nervous

Disorders. By Elwood Worcester, D.D., Ph. D.;

Comb, M. D., D. D., and Isador H. Coriat, M. D.

Moffatt, Yard Co., 1908.)-Studies in Paranoia.

lich, M. D., and M. Friedmann, M. D. Translated and edited

by Smith Ely Jelliffe, M. D. (New York: Journal of Nervous

& Mental Diseases Publishing Co., 1908.)-Ninth Annual Re-

port of the State Board of Insanity of the Commonwealth of

Massachusetts for the Year Ending November 30, 1907. (Bos-

ton: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1908.) Nursing the In-

sane. By Clara Barrus, M. D. (New York: The Macmillan

Company, 1908.)-Fourth Annual Report of the Henry Phipps

Institute for the Study of Tuberculosis. Edited by Joseph

Walsh, A. M., M. D. (Philadelphia: The Henry Phipps In-

stitute, 1908.)-Report from the Pathological Department of

the Central Indiana Hospital for the Insane, 1903-1906. (In-

dianapolis: Wm. B. Burford, 1908.)-Department of Neu-

rology, Harvard Medical School, Contributions from the

Massachusetts General, the Boston City, and the Long Island

Hospitals and the Neurological Laboratory. (Boston, 1908.)—

Thirty-seventh Annual Report of the Board of Public Charities

of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. (Harrisburg: State

Printer, 1908.)

.545-552

X. ABSTRACTS AND EXTRACTS:

Zur Prognosestellung bei der Dementia præcox.-Contribu-

tion a l'Etude de la Toxicite Urinaire dans les Maladies Men-
tales et Nerveuses.-Sur les Accessoires de l'habillement dans
la démence précoce et dans la psychose manique-dépressive.—
La Glande Thyroide chez les Alienes.-Apraxie et démence pré-
coce.-Ricerche sul potere riducente delle urine nella frenosi
maniaco-depressiva.-Der Kopfschmerz bei der Dementia
præcox.-Troubles psychiques par perturbations des glandes à
sécrétion interne

-553-558

APRIL, 1909.

I. A CLINICAL STUDY WITH BLOOD EXAMINATIONS OF TWO ATYPI-

CAL CASES RELATED TO THE DEMENTIA PRECOX GROUP.

Francis M. Barnes, Jr......

.....

II. A STUDY OF THE METABOLISM OF TWO ATYPICAL CASES RE-

LATED ΤΟ THE DEMENTIA PRECOX GROUP. Francis M.

Barnes, Jr.

III. THE QUESTION OF AUTOINTOXICATION IN ACUTE DEPRESSIVE

PSYCHOSES. Victor C. Myers, Jessie W. Fisher and A. R.

Diefendorf

.....

559

591

607

IV. A CASE OF CENTRAL NEURITIS WITH AUTOPSY. Henry A. Cot-

ton and E. E. Southard...

633

V. A REVIEW OF OUR PRESENT KNOWLEDGE CONCERNING THE SERO-

.....

DIAGNOSIS OF GENERAL PARALYSIS. Ernest Jones.....

VI. THE PROBLEM OF THE STATE IN THE CARE OF THE INSANE.

Adolf Meyer

653

689

VII. "AM STEINHOF." HOSPITAL AND SANATORIA IN VIENNA FOR

MENTAL AND NERVOUS PATIENTS IN LOWER AUSTRIA. L.

Vernon Briggs ...

707

VIII. ITALIAN IMMIGRATION AND INSANITY. Albert Warren Ferris. 717

IX. THE IMBECILE WITH CRIMINAL INSTINCTS. Walter E. Fernald. 731

TUBERCULOSIS IN HOSPITALS FOR THE INSANE. Richard H.

Hutchings

X.

XI. NOTES AND COMMENT:

Annual Meeting of the American Medico-Psychological As-

sociation.-The Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic.-Healing

Cults. Maryland Psychiatric Society.-Philadelphia Psychiatric

Society.-Detroit Society of Neurology and Psychiatry.-Death

of Dr. Brower.-Death of Professor Joffroy...

XII. HALF-YEARLY SUMMARY

751

.761-771

.772-793