Abstract

GUSTAV ASCHAFFENBURG M. D., PH. D., LL. D. The experience in Cologne and other places teaches us that free admission to mental hospitals without delay, without formality, without papers, has proved its workability. It serves best the interests both of the patient and the public. It is the best way to eliminate once and—we may hope—for ever the prejudices against the mentally ill and the hospitals as well as against the psychiatrists.