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Title: Alienist and neurologist.
Year: 1919 (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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esulting in high bloodpressure—all are important factors. To heredity, sedentary life and high living, together with a neurasthenic makeup,worthy consideration should be given. Pago Two Hundred Six THE ALIENIST AND NEUROLOGIST As to forms of psychosis with sclerosis of cerebral vessels predominating, reportsfrom the Pathological Department show out of 1 1 0 cases the following: Syphilis as an etiological factor 16 cases Alcohol as an etiological factor 3 cases Epilepsy as an etiological factor 11 cases Infective Exhaustive Psychosis as an etiological factor 2 cases Senile Psychosis as an etiological factor 54 cases With Gross Brain Lesion as an etiological factor 24 cases Total 110 cases One hundred ten cases out of 1,728 autopsies done, extending over the periodof years from 1884 to October 1st, 1917, show sclerosis of the cerebral arteries tobe existing. Education regarding these etiological factors is necessary to prevent thisdisease becoming more prevalent in future generations.
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Page Two Hundred Seven EDITORIALS. Conducted by MARC RAY HUGHES. M. D., DAVID S. BOOTH, M. D., BA YARD HOLMES. M. D. EDUCATING THE LAITY IN MATTERS MEDICAL. Early m our professional career, we became convinced of the desirability of en-lightening the laity in many matters pertaining to medicine, a conviction which has grownwith years of observation and revealed from time to time in our pages; therefore weapprove the running of a properly conducted medical department by lay publications,but, as often conducted, it is doubtful if they are rising to their opportunity for good—in fact, it appears they are often productive of harm. Great good may be accomplished by instructing the laity upon such subjects assanitation, personal hygiene, the causes and propagation of diseases, the laws of heredity,natural and acquired immunity, the insidiousness of chronic diseases, the necessityfor occasional physical examinations, the vis medicatrix naiura, etc., and perhaps, aboveall, the rationale of

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