Long Island College Hospital - Lichonian Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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lj eurolog g 15 ie' i -Q E T-,Vg i -4 5-.Q 2' I ' 1 . 2.-'inf' J 1' T .car 'ff 4 'q,w mn' fi .seg .1 513352 .QAJZLQ g11..v..Z?,.E, fade? TESL ' .E4regL'l5.2ZIQ7l?.lIlZIE'aB2!2.geQBQ5'Z IQEZQZE, .1 tgp, l It is perhaps of interest to the medical student, on the threshold of his career, to inquire what proportion the different specialties in medicine bear to general medical Work. At first the student quite properly considers the healing 21l't as composed of two great divisions,-medicine and surgery. But as he progresses, he realizes that the two great divisions further subdivide and differentiate. The various vital regions of the body demand accentuated interest for a special definite, skill is imperative. Thus emerge into medical specialization the intensive abilities of the internist, the pediatrist, the neurologist, and the surgical adepts in obstetrics, gynecology, etc., etc., to the number of a dozen or more. In order to approximate the proportion each specialty bears to medical work as a whole, certain comprehensive hospital records of admissions by service have been examined. The percentages run roughly as follows: medicine 1976, surgery l7'Z,, obstetrics SQL, gynecology ZW, genito-urinary 324, skin and syphilis 3th, pediatrics YZ, neurology 107 , psychopathic l9f-1., drug-addicts 278, etc., etc. As only a small though rather constant proportion of medical graduates become actual specialists-that is devote their energies exclusively to one branch, the above figures have merely a passing interest to the majority. But for the minority who do intend to specialize it may be of significance to note how large a place general neurology occupies in medicine. The scope of general neurology is tremendously comprehensive when considered in its entirety. The nervous system is not only the most ditfusely spread in the whole body, the most highly organized and delicate tissue, but it is by the very nature of its development through the gradual process of evolution the motor, the instigator, the reason itself for the existance of all the other parts and functions. Combining the above figures of neurology, psychopathics and drug-addicts it appears that 3l'k, or almost a third of the vast domain of medicine, comes under the scope of that which has been designed as the most intellectual of the specialties. Certain it is if the greatest study of mankind is man. the greatest study of man is neurology! Anyhow, as the Cobbler said, there is nothing like leatherll ROBERT ORNIISTON BROCKXVAY, M. D. Page fzfiy-sctfcn Wi l lil lg sl lg fl i til ,li Ml li Sl '-4' 'H .ll il gil U, El A-,I l H! wall 5: if U lull i 1' lik' li Q! 'url llhil ' lil 1 Y lil ' 5.41 ' 1 if ll PQ--J, til, pu ii' it ,szlf 'H tg.. up zur nl if I 'FE til QQ,- ye. al lm l - A iv l 151 .-N, lff1l :H : f5f.4l ll A ,ig . y at A: ldl' ,. bbw 5 .1-J ' 1- f. -ug ,g,1,.,. -ull'-fa ,. il .. f' 41-9 iii? .L Q.-at y. 1 r Cin.. ' 3. 'if' if-f V -sflzfh ' li' ll? 'Isa if ' . as --s ij. ei ri l ,l',.. .-, r 'KS' .rmlli be J 1 im, ' . ... '-fu

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MSG., .J -V - Y L .,. ., L, W ef,-9 W. . is , , 7 V ns. , cz -- Wg- -f ,f-4. HY. M V Z WQLQS.LBLEEELIZEAZEBIqaxmgfgznzumms v l l. ul 2541 .Ll iff. All 4 V' . .PJ lHj Hs ll Hr f l :ii . vi '-3 , Y s li.l is K llll as lil 9' H Fi, llil mi l 'N v X Sea.. 'fl I,-fe iff. -141,13 fAg-a ,- l 1 .JLICHUNIAH rliaza r-lip gif I PP 1 Ql iii! f .7 ,L H W -5 454.5 ' WILLIAM BROWNING Clinical Professor of Neurology U , . Ph.B., Yale 1876g M.D., Leipzig, 1881. Interne in German Hospital, New York, 1881-2, Neurologist L. I. C. H. Dispensary, 1884-93, State examiner in lunacy since 18933 Lecturer on Neurolcgy, L. I. C. H., 1887-9g Professor of Neurology, L. I. C. H., 1891. Attending or Consulting Neurologist Kings Co., L. I. State, Brooklyn, Sea View, Norwegian, St. john's, jewish, Eastern District, Bushwick, St. Christopher's and St. Catherine's Hospitals. On Stal? Annals of Surgery, 1885-913 Librarian of Medical Society, 1891-1900, and Directing Librarian since 19175 Co-Editor Brooklyn Medical Journal, 1891-1900, Editor of Neurographs. Mem- ber Amer. Neurol. Assn., Am. Anatomists, Assoc. Physicians of L. I. lex-pres.J, Brooklyn Inst. Arts and Sciences, L. I. Hist. Soc., A. A. A. S., Am. Soc. Naturalists, Eugenics Research Assn., ex-pres. Amer. Med. Library Assn., Brooklyn Soc. for Neurology, Kings Co., Med. Soc. Author: The Veins of the Brain and Its En- velopes, 18841 The Epileptic Interval, 18933 Circulation of the Central Nervous System, 18973 The Thymus and Stammering, 1915. Extensive contbr. to Med. Literature. Page fifty-.ri.r

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