A Day in a Mental Hygiene Clinic

All clinics have their individual thrill and fascination for the attending physician. The Medical Clinic, with its multitudes of sufferers each presenting the puzzle of diagnosis and treatment, will bring acquaintance with all walks of life, with illness in all its varied forms, the pleasure which comes from the appreciation of the improving patient, and the depression and added determination when the patient fails to gain. The Surgical Outpatient has its glamor and excitement. Sudden injuries, excited and bewildered patients, activity and meaningful bustle, the smell of green soap and pungent ether, and the immediate realization of treatment results, make this clinic of particular intrigue. The Children's Clinic, where one can play with all the babies of the world and watch them grow and gain-the cute oddities of race and type in these small specimens of humanity, the pathetic picture of the malnourished infant with his weak, pitiful cry, the remorse which comes when one must hurt or frighten these tiny humans because of necessary treatment procedure all go to make this clinic equally as full of emotional appeal , yet somehow, in just a little lighter vein than the heaviness and profoundness of the adult medical rooms. Orthopedics, the troubles of women in the Women's Clinic, the varied emotions of the Pre-natal Class, all of these, likewise, have their individual color. But the drama of the whole world raises its curtain at the door of the mental hygienist. Like the Medical Clinic it has its multitudes, its pleasures and its sorrows. It does not lack for glamor, for the first patient may be a youth from the Juvenile Court, the last a young girl victim of unscrupulous men, social and emotional accidents which bring them to its doors. It has the lighter quality of the Children's Clinic as well, in the unravelling of the behavior and personality deviations of childhood,-the cuteness which has gone too far or lasted too long. In fact, where the other clinics leave off in their drama of life, the neuropsychiatric clinic spreads its stage. Mental and emotional illnesses have always had a peculiar fascination for society. Biased attitudes have arisen as a result of the supernaturalism which has been thrown around those suffering from mental disease or those who in any way deviate from the rest of the