The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1917, Vol. 46

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Excerpt from The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1917, Vol. 46: An American Monthly Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry Founded in 1874, Official Organ of the American Neurological Association, the New-York Neurological Society, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology, the Philadelphia Neurological SocietyWith these broadly biological and sociological phases of our work, however, I am not at this moment concerned. I desire rather to call to vour special attention two apparently opposed tendencies which I may term, first, the tendency to minute classifi cation and. Secondly, the tendency to wide generalization. These two seemingly antagonistic factors are certainly inherent in all progress. Their relation to each other, however, is a matter of the utmost consequence. Since in our search for principles we are in constant danger of being overwhelmed by details. To be more concrete, there appears to be an almost intuitive tendency, even in the trained medical mind, to classify on insufficient evidence, to single out groups of symptoms and to name such symptoms dis eases. By this means it must frankly be admitted that medical knowledge has grown and very possibly it could have grown in no Other way, but it is no less apparent that progress has again and again been checked in its onward course by this bondage to names. Ignoring for the time being conditions primarily manifesting them selves outside the nervous system, there is no difficulty in multi plying examples.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.