One Hundred Years of Psychiatry by Emil Kraepelin, translated by W. Baskin, with an epilogue by H. P. Laqueur, London, Peter Owen, 1962, pp. 163, illUS., 25s.
Year: 1964
Type: book-review
Abstract: This volume is the second to be published in the internal medicine group of this comprehensive history.The first volume, published in I96I and reviewed in Medical History [I963, I, 95], dealt with the activities of consultants in this subject in all parts of the world.The second volume treats of some of the infectious diseases encountered.The third and final volume in the group will complete the account of these diseases and will also deal with general medicine.Some of the material in the volume under review inevitably overlaps that in the first volume and in the preventive medicine series, but has the advantage of presenting other points of view.There was an expansion of knowledge of the aetiology, clinical symptoms, control and treatment of certain diseases about which either little or nothing was known before the war, for example, sandfly fever, Q fever, scrub typhus, Brill's disease and Fort Bragg fever, a specific new disease.Careful studies were made of the acute and chronic respiratory diseases, including primary atypical pneumonia due to a virus.Professor Kneeland, the contributor, is of opinion that the disease was not new, but
Source: Medical History
Author: Richard Hunter
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1995369211