Report of the Committee appointed at a meeting of members of the Medico-Psychological Association, held at the College of Physicians, Edinburgh, on the 25th November, 1869, for the purpose of taking certain questions relating to the uniform recording of cases of insanity, and to the medical treatment of insanity into consideration.

  • Medico-Psychological Association.
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[1869]
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Credit: Report of the Committee appointed at a meeting of members of the Medico-Psychological Association, held at the College of Physicians, Edinburgh, on the 25th November, 1869, for the purpose of taking certain questions relating to the uniform recording of cases of insanity, and to the medical treatment of insanity into consideration. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    APPOINTED AT A UEETINa OF UEMBERS OF THE MEDICO-PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. Members of Committee: Drs. D. Skae, R. Smith, J. C. How- den, J. Sibbald, J. Batty Tiike, and T. S. Clouston, Secretary. The following are the recommendations of the Committee: 1. That a uniform mode of recording the history, symp- toms, treatment, and progress of cases of insanity should be adopted in all asylums for the insane. 2. A majority of the committee think that on account of the very great diversity of opinion at present existing among medical men in regard to the proper medical treatment of various forms of insanity, and the absence of a sufficient number of carefully recorded facts observed in a scientific manner, and having regard to the special opportunities which the medical officers of asylums have of making accurate therapeutical observations, that a uniform mode of treatment of certain cases should be experimentally adopted for a time in every asylum. The other members of the committee, while agreeing to adopt a uniform classification and mode of re- cording cases and the results of treatment, think that each medical officer should select his own method of treatment. The committee, therefore, recommend that such medical officers as agree to adopt the following method of treatment, and those who follow their own methods, should observe and record the results of their treatment with equal care and accuracy, and that the latter should endeavour to adopt such uniformity as will make their observations available for reliable scientific deductions.
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