Alienist and neurologist. . ng Grove State Hospital (for insane) near Carons-ville, Baltimore County, Maryland. In the February number of this magazine we printed adomestic picture of women patients weaving and mendinghosiery. Here is a class of patients engaged in making basketsand below is an outdoor study of a class of chronic patients,many of them incurable, in the same institution. The mostof these patients are usually classed as incurable, in the dementiaprecox class, but they seem not unhappy nor as fit to be killedas some pseudo and novice psychiatrists would consider someof them from
Alienist and neurologist. . ng Grove State Hospital (for insane) near Carons-ville, Baltimore County, Maryland. In the February number of this magazine we printed adomestic picture of women patients weaving and mendinghosiery. Here is a class of patients engaged in making basketsand below is an outdoor study of a class of chronic patients,many of them incurable, in the same institution. The mostof these patients are usually classed as incurable, in the dementiaprecox class, but they seem not unhappy nor as fit to be killedas some pseudo and novice psychiatrists would consider someof them from their histories. Happy Though Insane. 170 Insanity can not be understood in all of its phases at aglance as some assume. It is here especially that a little know-ledge is a dangerous thing, especially in a false medical expertwho testifies as a guess on non-clinically enlightened conclusionand non-psychopathically informed judgment. CLASS IN BASKETRY Spring Grove State Hospital For Insane. Catonsville, Md. 180 C. H. The preceding is a dcmcntia-precox class from samehospital receiving an outing instruction; and they appear notunhappy. Other illustrations will appear in later issues of thisMagazine. PROTECTING THE MENTAL HEALTH OF THEGROWING CHILD. By Martin W. Barr, M. D.* Chief Physician, Pennsylvania Training School,Elwyn, Pa. THE census records in successive periods at the close of thelast and the opening of the present century while evidenc-ing the progress of our great nation, give also a bugle note—a clear warning of an advancing army of Idiots, Imbeciles,Epileptics and Insane, and the steady growth and persistentencroachment of that worst enemy of a race—Degeneration. In this repletion of evidence, we find clear confirmationof the intimations given by scientists after prolonged researchin the various fields of Physiology, Psychology and Educa-tion. Surely we should recognize that the correllated evidenceof two such bodies—Practical and Theoretical—may no
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