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event in the history of the Hospital.

For the purpose of preserving, and of perhaps extending to some who were
not present, the spirit of the occasion, and of placing in permanent
form an account of the proceedings and the addresses which were made,
this volume has been published by the Society of the New York Hospital.

WILLIAM L. RUSSELL.

CONTENTS

Page
PREFACE vii

INVOCATION 3
REV. FRANK H. SIMMONDS

HISTORICAL REVIEW 7
EDWARD W. SHELDON, ESQ.
President of the Society of the New York Hospital

"THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF PSYCHIATRY TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF LIFE PROBLEMS" 17
ADOLF MEYER, M.D.
Director of the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic, Johns Hopkins
Hospital, and Professor of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Maryland

"THE IMPORTANCE OF PSYCHIATRY IN GENERAL MEDICAL PRACTICE" 55
LEWELLYS F. BARKER, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical School,
Baltimore, Maryland

GREETINGS FROM THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE 79
GEORGE D. STEWART, M.D.
President of the Academy

"THE BIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF MENTAL ILLNESS" 89
RICHARD G. ROWS, M.D.
Director of the Section on Mental Illnesses of the Special
Neurological Hospital, Tooting, London, England

"THE RELATION OF THE NEUROSES TO THE PSYCHOSES" 115
PIERRE JANET, M.D.
Professor of Psychology, College de France

"THE MEDICAL DEVELOPMENT OF BLOOMINGDALE HOSPITAL" 147
WILLIAM L. RUSSELL, M.D.
Medical Superintendent

THE TABLEAU-PAGEANT 171

NAMES OF THOSE WHO ATTENDED THE EXERCISES 177

APPENDIX I 191
COMMUNICATIONS FROM DR. BEDFORD PIERCE
Medical Superintendent of The Retreat, York, England
EXTRACT FROM MINUTES OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE RETREAT,
APRIL 30, 1921.
TRANSCRIPT FROM THE VISITORS BOOK OF THE RETREAT, 1803-17.

APPENDIX II 195
A LETTER ON PAUPER LUNATIC ASYL