THE

AMERICAN

JOURNAL OF INSANITY

PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF

THE AMERICAN MEDICO-PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

EDITORS

Henry M. Hurd, M. D.
Edward N. Brush, M. D.

G. Alder Blumer, M. D.
J. Montgomery Mosher, M. D.

VOLUME LIX

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

BALTIMORE

THE JOHNS HOPKINS PRESS

1902-1903

CONTENTS OF VOLUME LIX

JULY, 1902.

I. THE CRITERIA OF INSANITY AND THE PROBLEMS OF PSYCHIATRY.

E. Stanley Abbot

II. ON THE TYPHOID PSYCHOSES. Clarence B. Farrar

I

17

III. SOME POINTS IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF DEMENTIA PRAECOX.

William Rush Dunton, Jr.

53

IV. A CASE OF HUNTINGTON'S CHOREA WITH AUTOPSY. Glanville

Y. Rusk

63

V. ON SOME TERMINAL DISEASES IN MELANCHOLIA. Adolf

Meyer

83

VI. HYDRIATRIC PROCEDURES AS AN ADJUNCT IN THE TReatment

OF INSANITY. Emmet C. Dent

91

VII. MEDICO-LEGAL PHASES OF THE VERMONT OBSERVATION LAW

FOR CRIMINAL INSANE. Walter D. Berry

VIII. THE POSSIBLE INFLUENCE OF RATIONAL CONVERSATION ON THE

INSANE. Jas. M. Buckley

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103

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IX. AMERICAN MEDICO-PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION :

Proceedings of the Fifty-Eighth Annual Meeting

X. NOTES AND COMMENT:

Dr. G. Alder Blumer.—The Montreal Meeting.-The Evolu-

tion of the New McLean Hospital.-Nursing in Private Insane

Asylums.-The Remedy for Anarchism.-A Review of Scien-

tific Work at the McLean Hospital since 1879......

XI. OBITUARY: Selden Haines Talcott

XII. ABSTRACTS AND EXTRACTS:

129

.155-172

173-174

La Névrose d'Angoisse.-The Insane in Canada.-Contri-

bution to the Study of Stereotypia

XIII. BOOK REVIEWS:

175-178

A Practical Manual of Insanity. For the Medical Student

and General Practitioner. By Daniel R. Brower, A. M., M. D.,

LL. D., Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases in Rush

Medical College, in Affiliation with the University of Chicago,

etc., and Henry M. Bannister, A. M., M. D., formerly Senior

Assistant Physician, Illinois Eastern Hospital for the Insane.

(Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1902).. 179