NEUROPSYCHIATRY IN CHINA
- 1 July 1927
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry
- Vol. 18 (1) , 87-95
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archneurpsyc.1927.02210010090007
Abstract
An editorial in theChina Medical Journal, in 1889, stated that nervous and mental diseases were remarkably infrequent in China; unfortunately this statement is still being made repeatedly by those who should know better. That such diseases form only a small part of the total number of cases that find their way to China mission hospitals is doubtless true, but this is also the case in large general hospitals in any part of the world. Nevertheless, a perusal of the yearly reports from the many mission hospitals and of questionnaires sent to about 350 physicians throughout China stimulate the estimate that there are at least 3,120,000 cases of nervous and mental diseases in China, and that one of every 126 sick persons is a neuropsychiatric case. From the figures given, it is concluded that at least 43 per cent of these cases are purely psychiatric; this shows that there areKeywords
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