Memoir of Jamieson Boyd Hurry / [Warren R. Dawson].

  • Dawson, Warren R. (Warren Royal), 1888-1968.
Date:
1930
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Credit: Memoir of Jamieson Boyd Hurry / [Warren R. Dawson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    into French, Spanish, and Italian. Vicious Circles of Neurasthenia and their Treatment and Vicious Circles in Sociology followed in 1915, and two years later appeared Poverty and its Vicious Circles, which reached a second edition in 1921, and has been translated into French, Italian, Japanese, and Chinese. It was characteristic of Hurry that every subject in which he became interested was forthwith made the object of deep study and reflection. His critical and logical methods of handling his themes are familiar to all readers of his books, but in addition he had a mind of singular clarity and originality. It did not satisfy him merely to state a case, or to direct attention to some anomaly or defect that called for amendment; his fertile brain had always a remedy to suggest, and his attractive and polished literary style lent charm to every subject he handled. Thus, when in the course of his profes¬ sional work he was frequently in contact with the problems of nursing, he did not merely grumble at the defects in the current methods of the time, he studied their causes and proposed remedies, many of which have with profit become generally adopted, and his District Nursing on a Provident Basis (1898) was welcomed and widely read. Similarly his association with various scientific and medical societies led him to examine their structure and functions, and he published as a result The Ideals and Organization of a Medical Society (1913). Reading is the home of one of the oldest medical societies in this country—the Reading Pathological Society. During the whole of his long residence there. Hurry was an active and helpful member of that body, and was its president from 1907 to 1910. He was deeply impressed with the potentialities of such societies, and