scholarly journals William Arnot Parker, M.B., C.M.Glasg., Medical Superintendent, Glasgow District Mental Hospital, Gartloch, N.B.

1925 ◽  
Vol 71 (293) ◽  
pp. 349-350
Author(s):  
Hamilton C. Marr
Keyword(s):  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Medical Superintendent

Sir James Crichton Browne, 1840-1938

1939 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 519-521
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
High Standard ◽  
Standard Of Care ◽  
The West ◽  
Mental Hospitals ◽  
Medical Superintendent ◽  
Care And Treatment

On 31 January 1938, Sir James Crichton-Browne died a few months after his 97th birthday. In him the Royal Society lost its oldest Fellow, both in age and in membership, for he was elected Fellow in 1883, Charles Darwin being one of his proposers. His father, Dr W. A. F. Browne, who was the first Medical Superintendent of the Crichton Royal Mental Hospital at Dumfries, was largely responsible for the high standard of care and treatment of the insane for which this institution has since been famous ; later he became Commissioner in Lunacy in Scotland. It was therefore not surprising that after qualifying in medicine in Edinburgh University at the age of 22, his son decided to devote himself to the study of mental disorders. After serving in junior posts in various county Mental Hospitals he was appointed in 1866 Medical Superintendent of the West Riding Asylum, at Wakefield, a post he held until 1875. It was here his most valuable researches and pioneering work was done.

The Ranchi European Mental Hospital

1924 ◽  
Vol 70 (288) ◽  
pp. 68-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Owen Berkeley-Hill
Keyword(s):  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Mental Hospitals ◽  
Medical Superintendent

There is a Persian saying that there is no greater anguish known among mankind than to have many thoughts at heart and no power of deed. This particular form of anguish must be well known to most medical superintendents of mental hospitals, for how many of them long to be able to raise the standard of work at the hospital whose welfare they have at heart but, for some reason or another, the power of deed is denied them? Nevertheless, in spite of many a heart made sick by deferred hope, every medical superintendent is probably in a position to raise the efficiency of the hospital in his charge provided he can get plenty of good ideas to work with.

Alfred Miller, M.B., B.Ch.Dubl.

1924 ◽  
Vol 70 (289) ◽  
pp. 177-179
Author(s):  
Daniel F. Rambaut
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Great Loss ◽  
Medical Superintendent

By the death of Dr. Alfred Miller, Medical Superintendent of the Warwickshire County Mental Hospital, the medical profession of Warwickshire, the Warwick County Mental Hospital, and the Medico-Psychological Association of Great Britain and Ireland have sustained a great loss.

The Care and Management of Induced Malaria

1927 ◽  
Vol 73 (301) ◽  
pp. 209-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. D. Nicol
Keyword(s):  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Malaria Parasite ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
County Council ◽  
Routine Laboratory ◽  
Ministry Of Health ◽  
Pure Strain ◽  
Medical Superintendent ◽  
Scientific Equipment ◽  
Selection Of

For the treatment of general paralysis of the insane by induced malaria, the Board of Control, in consultation with the Ministry of Health, decided, at the end of 1924, to make an official arrange ment by which a pure strain of the benign tertian malaria parasite would be cultivated in mosquitoes, and would be made available for inoculation by mosquito-bites instead of by the direct inocula tion of blood from other patients. In consultation with the Mental Hospitals Department of the London County Council, the Horton Mental Hospital was selected for the work of pre paring and maintaining the strain of malaria in mosquitpes, and Col. J. R. Lord, C.B.E., Medical Superintendent of the Hospital, undertook the necessary arrangements in collaboration with Col. S. P. James, of the Medical Staff of the Ministry of Health. An isolated villa in the hospital grounds was selected as a treatment-block and laboratory; the Horton Mental Hospital authorities caused it to be mosquito-proofed and furnished, and the Ministry of Health supplied the scientific equipment of the laboratory. The Ministry also arranged that the routine laboratory work should be done by one of their laboratory assistants, Mr. P. G. Shute, under Col. James's supervision. I undertook the selection of cases suitable for treatment and their clinical care and management. The arrange ments were completed in April, 1925, and since that month 33 batches of infected mosquitoes have been prepared and utilized for the inoculation of more than 300 patients in 69 hospitals in England, Wales and Scotland.

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