Depression.
The author's account will be personal and idiosyncratic: it is based on experience acquired in the management of more than 2,000 such cases during nearly two decades of private consultant and general hospital practice.
Abstract
escapes recognition, with distressing and sometimes disastrous results for the patient. My account will be personal and idiosyncratic: it is based on experience acquired in the management of more than 2,000 such cases during nearly two decades of private consultant and general hospital practice. I hope it will not surprise you that a physician and neurologist should choose a psychiatric subject. Specialization is essential to the advance of medicine, but we should beware of taking it too seriously. The boundaries of the various specialties are matters of expediency rather than logic. Where paediatrics end and medicine begins in a hospital may depend