Transactions of the ...annual Meeting of the Missouri State Medical Association, Volum 43

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Side 15 - It shall be the duty of the Board of Health to make an annual report through their Secretary, or otherwise, in writing to the Governor of this State, on or before the first...
Side 15 - January of each year; and such report shall include so much of the proceedings of the Board, and such information concerning vital statistics; such knowledge respecting diseases, and such instruction on the subject of Hygiene, as may be thought useful by the Board, for dissemination among the people with such suggestions as to legislative action, as they may deem necessary.
Side 14 - State treasury such amount as may be necessary to enable the State Board of Health to carry out the provisions of this act.
Side 325 - That their home life, as a rule, furnishes the most fruitful soil for the cultivation and development of both of these etiologic factors is well recognized. Hence, the treatment of hysteria at the home of the patient means absolute failure from the start.
Side xv - Presidents, when called upon, shall assist the President in the performance of his duties, and during the absence, or at the request of the President, one of them shall officiate in his place. The...
Side 325 - These remarks eminently coincide with my own experience, and I have for some time considered it labor in vain to treat such patients without the enforcement of the principle of isolation away from home. The separation of the hysterics from home, friends and relatives, is often a difficult task, as they cannot perceive the wisdom of such a course, besides the expense. This measure, they claim,. has the aspect of harshness, as well as being unnecessary, for if it is a question of good nursing they...
Side 324 - ... the nervous system is more or less dominated by ideas as well as by the emotions hence the definite conception of a symptom may lead to its occurrence. For instance, the idea of a loss of power in certain muscles may later render it impossible for the patient to will the normal movement of a part, hence paralysis occurs. Again, a definite pain in a part is conceived or thought of and before very long it may be actually felt by the patient. When ideas are thus conjoined to the emotion, the motive...
Side 326 - For this purpose the full confidence of the patient must be secured by the physician, a task not always easy, and the peculiar mental traits and characteristics carefully studied which will also suggest the birth as well as the nature and character of the new idea to be established. The essential qualifications of this newly acquired idea should embody the inspiring influence belonging to hope, progress and co-operation, with sufficient force and power as to impress upon the mind of the patient the...
Side 12 - Each board shall consist of seven members, and each of said members shall serve for a term of four years, or until their successors are appointed...
Side 325 - I have often made the effort to treat them in their own homes and to isolate them there, but I have rarely done so without promising myself that I would not again complicate my treatment by any such embarrassments.

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