Abstract

GENERAL M. D., nervousToRoNTo,HOSPITALS.*CANADA.President:occupied a prominent a few remarks on past might wards means disease with, paper, two I may years first say in be of interestplace in the advance the practical result of the that special department Association. the to thisof medicine, their treatment of a general ofI thought for the hospital, neuropathicI advocated primarily, for the physician by the to and by so called or insanities, beneficial hospital, onward asin general hospitals would thus be found which, viz., here not state refer only that only of the insanity.in the prevention but thebelief that a practical of the most serious State has to contend in this psycho-word the“insanity,” insanities,as used theI wouldneuroses of Kaift-Ebing; those forms especially cal symptoms predominate, chronic other chasthenia. The are not included. With treatment partment towards I would prophylaxis by beginning disease, the The chiefly good tion*functional neurasthenia, it might such results, which course, do benervous disease; to in which psychitermed,psyetc., the deyou.as dementia which diseases, not I will in tend notprcox, arise from immediately detainthe of ofmany thosefunctional in theira speciala generalinsanity like of and question by the work, of affairs, hasto direct your attention insanity from a neurological earliest thence