Fourth Annual Report Of The Trustees Of The State Lunatic Hospital At Worcester PDF Download

Excerpt from Sixty-Fourth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Worcester Lunatic Hospital, and Nineteenth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Worcester Insane Asylum at Worcester, for the Year Ending September 30, 1896 In our last report mention was made of the fact that plans were under consideration for enlarging the scope of the medical work of the hospital, in adding a training school for the assist ant physicians and a limited number of internes, young men who might wish to perfect themselves in a knowledge of nervous diseases. This was deemed a step in the right dirce tion, and was cordially approved by the trustees. These plans are now in a large measure perfected, and the new department will be opened with the beginning of the official year under the especial charge of Dr. Adolf Meyer, who entered upon his service at the hospital early in November. During the sum mer Dr. Meyer visited Europe, accomplishing an incredible amount of work, and bringing back with him the latest results of the progress made by students in the old world. He selected much apparatus for the new laboratory, which has'been fitted up and which will no doubt prove a very useful adjunct in the daily work of the hospital. For many years the hospital has been so crowded with patients that the officers have been overwhelmed with routine duties. The material wants of the large colony - equal to the whole of Massachusetts in early Colonial days - have made it impossible to give to individual cases the special care and attention which would have been gladly devoted to them. The internes will assist in the laboratory and aid in clinical work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.