Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Manual of Autopsies: Designed for the Use of Hospitals for the Insane and Other Public Institutions
The subject of the adoption in American asylums of some uniform system of reporting autopsies has for several years engaged the attention of the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane. It is believed that about three thousand deaths occur annually in the various institutions represented by the Association. Many of these cases are available for the study of pathological conditions in brain and body result ing in insanity; and there is little opportunity for the observation of physical changes produced by mental dis ease outside of hospitals for the care of the insane. The material afforded the alienist is abundant, particularly since asylums have grown to proportions so large that insanity can be studied in all its clinical, as well as patho logical, aspects in recent and chronic cases.
What is desirable, is to cultivate a power of observation and description; to develop the practice of scientific inquiry into the patient's physical and mental condition while living, and to increase our ability to demonstrate clearly whatever lesions may be visible after death. A uniform method of making such examinations has seemed to be desirable, in order that, by following the same procedure in all cases, we may have the data in a proper form for obtaining the most valuable results. The medico-psychological Association, of Great Britain, recognizing the importance of concerted action, has also had this subject under consideration.
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