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Some Considerations on the Present-day Knowledge of Psychiatry, and its Application to those under Care in Public Institutions for the Insane

The Presidential Address at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Medico-Psychological Association of Great Britain and Ireland, held at Belfast, on July 2-5, 1924

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

M. J. Nolan*
Affiliation:
Down District Asylum, Consulting Visitor in Lunacy to the Lord Chief Justices of Northern and Southern Ireland

Extract

There is great difficulty in finding a novel theme as the subject of an address to the members of an Association which rejoices in the maturity of its eighty-third year of existence. Still greater is the difficulty in finding a subject of common interest having regard to the varied branches of work covered by their labours, ranging as they do from the busy routine of a crowded day to the silent special research in the laboratory. And the greatest difficulty of all lies in the fact that in each of these fields of work there are many present who have had vastly wider opportunities than I have had, and who could treat their chosen subject with infinitely more skill in thought and language than I can command. Since, however, you have been good enough to give me the opportunity of addressing you I feel you will be no less generous in pardoning my shortcomings on this occasion.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1924 

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