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Thomas W. Salmon, M.D.

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Thomas W. Salmon, MD

A VERY FEW YEARS AGO IT would have been difficult to justify the inclusion of a chapter on mental hygiene in a general treatise on preventive medicine and hygiene. The medico-legal term "insanity" was used to designate all abnormal mental states and the incorrect conception of mental and physical diseases as distinct and practically unrelated was widely accepted. These misconceptions and the hopelessness, both as to cure and prevention, which characterized the medical attitude toward mental diseases combined to disassociate mental medicine and its problems from the subjects which were engaging the attention of physicians and . . . [Full Text]

IMPORTANCE OF THE PROBLEMS OF MENTAL HYGIENE

MENTAL CAUSES

Preventive Measures
ECONOMIC FACTORS

CONCLUSION