As a medical student in the 1930s, I remember well that a very clear line of distinction was drawn between physical illness and mental illness. Physical illness resulted from pathology which could be identified and studied in detail and the cause could often be deduced. Treatment thus was often specific and based upon a proper appreciation of underlying basic science. Mental illness, on the other hand, could not, it was believed, be based upon identifiable changes in basic science. It was literally 'all in the mind' and, occurring in the absence of causes that could be identified, analysed and remedied, had no treatment that could in any way be called specific. N ow it is all too easy, in Medicine, for a doctor to become so immersed in a specialty that he fails to notice how his colleagues in other specialties are faring and, through laziness, to miss advances even of fundamental importance in fields other than those in which he himself works. As a consultant surgeon, after W orId War II, although I realized the importance of keeping in touch with those medical specialties which appeared to have a common interface with my own surgical interests, such as general medi­ cine, gastro-enterology, hepatology and endocrinology, it did not occur to me that there was any pressing need to ask what was new in Psychological Medicine.

Handbook of lithium therapy

F. Neil Johnson

University Park Press

Handbook of Lithium Therapy

As a medical student in the 1930s, I remember well that a very clear line of distinction was drawn between physical illness and mental illness. Physical illness resulted from pathology which could be identified and studied in detail and the cause could often be deduced. Treatment thus was often specific and based upon a proper appreciation of underlying basic science. Mental illness, on the other hand, could not, it was believed, be based upon identifiable changes in basic science. It was literally 'all in the mind' and, occurring in the absence of causes that could be identified, analysed and remedied, had no treatment that could in any way be called specific. N ow it is all too easy, in Medicine, for a doctor to become so immersed in a specialty that he fails to notice how his colleagues in other specialties are faring and, through laziness, to miss advances even of fundamental importance in fields other than those in which he himself works. As a consultant surgeon, after W orId War II, although I realized the importance of keeping in touch with those medical specialties which appeared to have a common interface with my own surgical interests, such as general medi cine, gastro-enterology, hepatology and endocrinology, it did not occur to me that there was any pressing need to ask what was new in Psychological Medicine.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Springer London

Astound your friends and befuddle your foes with this delicious lexicographical feast of rare and rediscovered words Fedity. (Fe-di-tee) n. Loathsome practice. There being none greater than the addition of lemonade to a single malt. Chuff. (Chuf) n. A boorish or churlish person. A most helpful word which not only denotes a person at whom a swift kick might usefully be directed, but also incorporates a hint as to where it might be aimed.   In these pages you will discover words you never knew existed, and rediscover many that you had forgotten or had given up all hope of ever seeing again. For each word a definition is provided as well as hilarious commentary. If the amoindering of the language by fifish chuffs leads you to fleer and the infandous overslipping of orthoepy makes you feel wamble, this is most certainly the book for you. Prepare to fike, gane, and gaure as Dr. Johnson certiorates, carrying carotic catachresis to new heights, and providing all lovers of leguleian lexicographical detail with a rich feast of mullock, cultch, and peltry.

Dr Johnson's Reliquary of Rediscovered Words

Marius Press

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Handbook of lithium therapy

Handbook of Lithium Therapy

Dr Johnson's Reliquary of Rediscovered Words