Proceedings of the American Medico-Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Band 10

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American Medico-Psychological Association, 1903
 

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Seite 89 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, i Sleep to wake.
Seite 48 - Association shall include all past and present medical superintendents named in the official list published for 1892 of members of " The Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane...
Seite 55 - The President of the Association introduced the Honorable HBF MacFarland, President of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, who welcomed the Association to the District of Columbia in the following words: Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: I have the honor of welcoming you on behalf of the executive government of the District of Columbia, the Board of Commissioners, and in its behalf I offer you a moat hearty welcome here.
Seite 50 - Persons; of whom, in the first appointment, [one third, viz.] (four,) shall be for one Year, (four) for two Years, and (four) for three Years; and as the said terms expire, the Vacancies shall be filled by appointments for three Years; whereby one Third of the Members will be changed annually.
Seite 89 - After all, it is not so much what a man does as what he is that gives him distinction everywhere ; and when a medical superintendent is denied the opportunity of showing what he is, is compelled to suppress every instinct of self-sovereignty before such despotism as that of which we are speaking; if he have character, his soul will rebel against his oppressors, for " Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God...
Seite 50 - ... day, by a committee appointed for that purpose by the President ; and the election shall take place immediately. The election shall be made as the meeting may determine, and the person who shall have received the highest number of votes shall be declared elected to the office for which he has been nominated. The President...
Seite 97 - The commission may endeavor to secure legislation from congress to provide more effectually for the removal of alien and nonresident insane, and may expend a reasonable sum therefor, from the moneys appropriated for the use of the hospitals.
Seite 139 - But the complaints are so exceedingly uniform that the uniformity of the subjective complaints justifies the conclusion that they are well founded. The picture thus is briefly that of a mental weakness shown by easy fatigue, slowness of thought, inability to keep impressions, irritability and a great number of unpleasant sensations, above all headaches and dizziness.
Seite 139 - These patients are unable to concentrate their attention, not even in occupations which serve for mere entertainment, such as reading or playing cards. They like best to brood unoccupied ; even conversation is rather obnoxious. This point is so characteristic that it gives a certain means of distinction from simulation, which as a rule does not interfere with taking part in the conversations and pleasures of the ward and playing at cards, which means as a rule too much of an effort for the brain...
Seite 501 - Measured and weighed by these standards, Dr. Carpenter, was a full-grown man. We cannot believe he is dead. We are prone to believe that " living is death ; dying is life ; we are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens ; on this side orphans, on that children ; on this side captives, on that freemen; on this side disguised, on that disclosed and proclaimed the sons of God.

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