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American Problems in Psychiatry, Illustrated by a Study of Cook County Insanity Statistics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Jas. G. Kiernan
Jas. G. Kiernan*
Affiliation:
Chicago, Ill
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The problems which present themselves to any community in regard to insanity at the present day, are much more complex than that presented to primeval society—which was simply self-protection. Primeval society canonized or exterminated the insane as they were given to ecstatic visions or violence. Even in Anglo-Saxon lands at the present day, while one portion of the community starves and freezes the insane and calls out for their blood, another portion makes them its religious leaders.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 33 , Issue 142 , July 1887 , pp. 190 - 209
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1887

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Footnotes

∗

By Cook County, Dr. Kiernan implies Chicago and its suburbs.—[Eds.]

∗

My childish recollection of Booth associates with him decided insanity of manner.

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