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Excerpt from The Friends of the Insane, the Soul of Medical Education, and Other Essays The following essays are corrected reprints from the pages of the Lancet-Clinic. Some brief additions have been made to them for completeness or clearness. They were written with a distinct purpose. It has seemed very unreasonable, not to say cruel, that the insane are cared for by the State, not for their own good, but, as Dr. George Webster, President of the Illinois State Board of Health once said at a banquet of a medical fraternity, for the good and safety of the sane. Millions are spent in custody, but not a dollar in cure, not a dollar in research. If the man of business, the stock farmer, for example, lost one out of every 300 of his creatures by an expensive disease or accident, and continued caring for these sick animals at great expense, making no effort to discover the source of the disease or do away with the cause of the accident, he would be in the position of the forty sovereign States that care for the insane but make no effort to discover and eradicate the cause. For every thousand dollars spent in custody ten dollars ought to be spent in research. Economy might dictate that even a hundred dollars out of each thousand should be spent in research and cure. As it is, absolutely no effort is made by any department of State to shut off the need of an expense for custody of the insane, which is as much a burden to industry as a perpetual war. 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.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Literature & literary studies Anthologies (non-poetry)

• Full title: Friends of the Insane, the Soul of Medical Education, and Other Essays (Classic Reprint)
• Author: Bayard Holmes
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296
• EAN: 9781330826140
• ISBN: 9781330826140
• ID: 09692847
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Weight: 399 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. July 2015

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