Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... Dh. Page's maintenance of daily clinics is mentioned in Article II of this series (" The Margin of Error in the Diagnosis of Mental Disease "), where also are reprinted the conclusions of the writer's papers on "Errors in the Diagnosis of General Paresis" and "Anatomical Findings in Senile Dementia," both of which studies are wholly dependent on this system of daily clinics. The following is taken from the writer's discussion (with minor errors corrected) of Dr. Elbert M. Somers' paper before the American Medico-Psychological Association at Atlantic City in 1909, on " The Value of Staff Conferences in State Hospitals." Dr. Southard. -- "I would like to say a word about the economy of this conference system, because lately I have been enjoying the fruits of the daily staff conference at Danvers Hospital in a review of autopsy findings in cases that have been through the daily clinics. I wrote to Dr. Cowles, formerly of McLean Hospital, to learn whether he had any data relating to the time at which this system was adopted, and he has written me a letter concerning the development attained at the McLean Hospital. He assigned the origin of such conferences originally to Germany, to Professor Ranke, who held a seminar for the discussion of historical matters by his pupils. That system has, of course, now spread into a number of our universities. "In 1889, if I remember the date, the conferences were introduced at McLean. These conferences largely had the aspect of meetings at which special topics were considered and occasionally an introduction of patients. And then came in a number of hospitals in Massachusetts and elsewhere the occasional conference, perhaps a weekly conference. "Dr. Page introduced the daily clinic in Middletown, Conn., ...
