The Journal-Lancet, Vol. XXXV, No. 5, March 1, 1915: The Journal of the Minnesota State Medical Association and Official Organ of the North Dakota and South Dakota State Medical Associations — John Shaqi
The Journal-Lancet, Vol. XXXV, No. 5, March 1, 1915: The Journal of the Minnesota State Medical Association and Official Organ of the North Dakota and South Dakota State Medical AssociationsVarious
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The Journal-Lancet, Vol. XXXV, No. 5, March 1, 1915: The Journal of the Minnesota State Medical Association and Official Organ of the North Dakota and South Dakota State Medical Associations
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Medicine -- Periodicals
I think the profession will have to keep their eyes on the
legislators, perhaps on the new governor, and see that this
institution is not thrown into the waste-basket, so to speak, or
converted into some other sort of institution, because we need a place
of this kind. Even if Minnesota can go prohibition pretty soon--and I
rather think it will--we shall not get rid of our drunkards for that
reason. We shall still have to have a hospital for the treatment of
the morphine, cocaine, and alcoholic habits. The doctors who send
patients to Willmar, I think, ought to be careful, and not try to
help some municipality out of taking care of old battered hulks, who
cannot hope to recover, who cannot be made well simply because they
have been drinking for so many years, and their other habits of life
have resulted in such a deterioration of the brain that there is no
possibility of bringing them back and making really good citizens of
them. Those patients should be kept in a work-house or in a special
department at Willmar or some other place. We should try to reclaim
all of our young men and young women habitues.
Owing to the absence of proper writeups about this hospital it is not
generally known throughout the state that pay-patients can be received
and treated just as in any sanitarium and at very moderate rates.
Dr. Freeman (closing): I really have nothing to add in closing except
to say a word with regard to prohibition. I have a second-hand
statement from the police of one of the Twin Cities that he is
positive in his city there are five thousand drug-users from his
experience in the police court.
With regard to the maintenance of discipline at the institution: We
have sufficient law or authority for discipline, but we have not
the facilities. The thing in my opinion that we mostly require is a
building where we can take care of a man who is incorrigible, or a
man who runs away. For two reasons: In the first place, I have known
a number of men who came there unwillingly, who later were greatly
benefited by their compulsory stay; second, the effect of disciplinary
measures upon the population in general. If a man knows that, when he
goes there, he must stay, he naturally gets over his constant thought
that he is going to sneak away, and put it over. The custodial cottage
to take care of forty people would allow, in all, four classes of
patients. We should have a reception-ward in which to examine all new
patients; one ward for the incorrigible; and we should have two other
places to care for two classes of men received. This would prevent the
influence of the older men who have gone further in their habits upon
the young boy who has just started.
DIAGNOSIS OF INTRACRANIAL COMPLICATIONS IN DISEASES OF THE MIDDLE
EAR AND ACCESSORY SINUSES OF THE NOSE[3]
By Joseph C. Beck, M. D.
CHICAGO.
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