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THE

AMERICAN

JOURNAL OF INSANITY

PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF

THE AMERICAN MEDICO-PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

EDITORS
Henry M. Hurd, M. D.

G. Alder Blumer, M. D.
Edward N. Brush, M. D.

J. Montgomery Mosher, M. D.
Charles K. Clarke, M. D.

VOLUME LXVI

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“The care of the human mind is the most noble branch of medicine."--GROTIUS

BALTIMORE
THE JOHNS HOPKINS PRESS

1909-1910

X LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORALA

DAVIS

CONTENTS OF VOLUME LXVI

AS

III

JULY, 1909.

I. MOTOR RETARDATION A MANIC-DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOM.

Frederic Lyman Wells

II. A CASE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA (DEMENTIA Præcox). A. A.

Brill

53

III. THE INSANITY DEFENSE FOR CRIME. John B. Chapin.... 71

IV. COURT TESTIMONY OF ALIENISTS. Britton D. Evans...... 83

V. FORMS OF INSANITY IN FIVE YEARS' ADMISSIONS TO, AND Dis-

CHARGES FROM, THE HOSPITALS FOR THE INSANE IN Massa-

CHUSETTS. E. Stanley Abbot..

VI. HUNTINGTON'S CHOREA. W. H. Hattie...

123

VII. HEREDITARY CHOREA (HUNTINGTON's). Beatrice A. Steven-

son and H. D. Purdum....

129

VIII. BORDERLAND CASES OF INSANITY AND THE VOLUNTARY PA-

TIENT. Albert Warren Ferris....

133

IX. PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES :

AMERICAN MEDICO-PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. PROCEED-

INGS OF THE SIXTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING, ATLANTIC

City, N. J., JUNE 1-4, 1909.....

141

X. OBITUARY :

Dr. John P. Brown.

172

XI. NOTES AND COMMENT:

Proposed New Hospital for Mental Diseases in Boston.-

Transactions of the Third International Congress on Nurs-

ing the Insane.—International American Congress of Medi-

cine and Hygiene.—The Meeting at Atlantic City..... 174-175

XII. ABSTRACTS AND EXTRACTS:

La mort suite de ponction lombaire.-La colesterina nel

liquido cefalorachidiano del paralitici, e sua partecipazione

alla reazione di Wassermann.

.176-177

XIII. Book REVIEWS:

Sixteenth Annual Report of the State Charities Aid Asso-

ciation to the State Commission in Lunacy (New York

United Charities Building).-Bibliothèque de Psychologie

Expérimentale et de Métapsychie. Directeur, Raymond

Meunier. (Paris: Bloud et cie.) (1) Les Hallucinations

Télépathiques. By N. Vaschide. (2) Le Spiritisme dans ses

Rapports avec la Folie. By Marcel Viollet. (3) L'Audition

Princess Lubomirska. (5) La Pathologie de l'Attention. By

N. Vaschide and Raymond Meunier. (7-8) Le Hachich, Es-

Morbide. By A. Marie. (4) Les Préjugés sur la Folie. By

sai sur la Psychologie des Paradis Ephémères. By Raymond

Meunier. (9) L'Evolution Psychique de l'Enfant. By H.

Bouquet. (10) Travail et Folie. Influences Professionelles

sur l'Etiologie Psychopathique. By A. Marie and R. Martial.

-Les Folies Raisonnantes. Le Délire d'Interprétation. By

Sérieux and Capgras. (Paris: Alcan, 1909.)—Diseases of

the Nervous System for the General Practitioner and Stu-

dent. By Alfred Gordon, A. M., M. D., etc. (Philadelphia:

P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1908.)—Bier's Hyperæmic Treat-

ment in Surgery, Medicine and the Specialties. By Willy

Meyer, M. D., and Professor Dr. Victor Schmieden. (Phila-

delphia and London: W. B. Saunders Co., 1908.)—The Prac-

titioner's Medical Dictionary. An Illustrated Dictionary of

Medicine and Allied Subjects. By George M. Gould, A. M.,

M.D. (Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co.)—Illustra-

tions of the Gross Morbid Anatomy of the Brain in the In-

sane. By I. M. Blackburn, M. D. (Washington: Govern-

ment Printing Office, 1908.)-Insomnia and Nerve Strain.

By Henry S. Upson, M. D. (New York and London: G. P.

Putnam's Sons, 1908.).

...178-187

OCTOBER, 1909.

I. AN ANALYSIS OF THE PSYCHOSES ASSOCIATED WITH GRAVES'

DISEASE Frederic H. Packard......

189

II. Psycho-ANALYTIC NOTES ON A CASE OF HYPOMANIA. Ernest

Jones

203

III. IMPRESSIBILITY IN DEMENTIA PRÆCox. Charles Ricksher.... 219

IV. HYSTERIA, WHAT IT IS AND What It Is Not. Charles K.

Mills

231

V. THE DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS BETWEEN HYSTERICAL INSANITY

AND DEMENTIA PRÆCOX; WITH REPORT OF AN ILLUSTRATIVE

CASE OF HYSTERICAL INSANITY. Theodore Diller and

George J. Wright.

253

VI. NEURASTHENIC AND PSYCHASTHENIC PSYCHOSES. Henry P.

Frost

259

VII. SOME ORIGINS IN PSYCHIATRY. Clarence B. Farrar..... 277

VIII. CONSCIOUS EPILEPSY. L. Pierce Clark......

295

IX. METABOLISM IN GENERAL PARALYSIS; AN EXAMINATION OF

THE URINE, BLOOD AND CEREBROSPINAL FLUID. Francis M.

Barnes

301

X. NOTES AND COMMENT:

German Translation of Dr. Pandy's Book.—Dr. Wagner's

Address at Fairview.-A History of the Medico-Psychologi-

cal Association.—Death of Dr. E. H. Van Deusen.-Ameri-

can Association of Clinical Research.-Death of Dr. B. D.

Eastman.-Death of Dr. W. W. Ireland. .....

·313-323

XI. Book REVIEWS:

Therapeutics of the Circulation. By Lauder Brunton,

M. D., etc. (Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1908.)

-Philadelphia General Hospital Reports. Vol. VIII, 1908.

(Philadelphia, 1909.)-Neurological and Mental Diagnosis.

A Manual of Methods. By L. Pierce Clark, M. D., and A.

Ross Diefendorf, M. D. (New York: The Macmillan Co.,

1908.)-Handbook for Attendants on the Insane. (Chicago:

W. T. Keener & Co., 1909.)-Genito-Urinary Diseases and

Syphilis. By Henry H. Morton, M. D., etc. (Philadelphia :

F. A. Davis Co., 1908.) ...

. 324-326

XII. ABSTRACTS AND EXTRACTS:

Contribution to the Study of Blood Pressure in General

Paresis. Observations on the Blood Pressure and Vascular

Disease in the Female Insane.-Psychasthenia.—Considéra-

tions thérapeutiques sur les troubles mentaux d'origine tox-

ique. La médication iodée.—Considerazioni statistico-noso-

logiche sulla demenza precoce.—De la soidisant para-

noia"

.327-330

XIIL HALF-YEARLY SUMMARY..

•331-346

XIV. APPOINTMENTS, RESIGNATIONS, ETC.

.347-350

351

JANUARY, 1910.

I. MENTAL HEALING IN AMERICA. I. Woodbridge Riley......

II. THE MEDICAL SERVICE OF STATE HOSPITALS FOR THE INSANE

William L. Russell....

365

III. ON THE NIGHTMARE. Ernest Jones....

383

IV. SYPHILIS AND INSANITY. A STUDY OF THE CEREBRO-SPINAL

FLUID. A. J. Rosanoff and John I. Wiseman.

419

V. PARTIAL THYROIDECTOMY FOR CATATONIC DEMENTIA PRÆCox.

Allen B. Kanavel and Lewis J. Pollock.....

437

VI. WAS KING EDWARD THE SECOND A DEGENERATE? Chalfant

Robinson

445

VII. THE CYCLIC FORMS OF DEMENTIA PRÆcox. William Rush

Dunton, Jr.

465

VIII. A STUDY OF THE MORO TUBERCULIN OINTMENT TEST, WITH

SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ITS USE IN THE INSANE Laura A.

Lone

477