Adolf Meyer and mental hygiene: an ideal for public health.

Mental Hygiene in Public Health

surgeon s blade provided an additional 313 specimielns. From this vast quantity of material the author has reconstructed the chronology of the pathogenic process in a dynamic manner. The behavior of the parenchymal lesion, of the bronchial lesion, and of tuberculous bronchiectasis are each discussed separately. The chapter on bacteriological observations should prove valual)le to anyone who has...

Mental Hygiene in Public Health

opens a wide field for the activities of Medical Officers of Health. It arises as a result of a series of lectures given in an American University by a Public Health Officer, who has had the vision to see that mental health is as important as physical health. The new Health Service Act has laid much stress on hospital and clinical care and treatment, but the preventive side of medicine has been...

The Strange Disappearance of Adolf Meyer

In 1943 Adolf Meyer had been in the United States for 51 years. He had spent that time revolutionizing attitudes in American Psychiatry. Indeed, he had so single-handedly reshaped thinking in this field that, in that year, Dr. Arthur H. Ruggles, President of the American Psychiatric Association, had the following assessment of Meyer: As research worker, scholar and organizer, as professor of ps...

Hygiene and Public Health

A. Whitelegge and Sir George Newman, 13th Edition, revised, etc., 1917. Cassell & Co., Ltd. This admirable little book has been before the medical profession for over 27 years, and has been frequently revised. It is now in its 13th edition, and the work has largely fallen to the hands of Sir George Newman, the Emeritus Lecturer on Public Health at " Barts." The new edition has been thoroughly r...

Hygiene and Public Health