New ideals in healing / by Ray Standard Baker ; with twelve full-page illustrations from photographs.

  • Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870-1946.
Date:
[1909]
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Credit: New ideals in healing / by Ray Standard Baker ; with twelve full-page illustrations from photographs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    date therapeutics admirably as any ritual- ist, but the whole thing is hollow—nothing comes of it. A sharp change in a person’s habits of eating and drinking, sleeping, thinking, working, is what the tract de- mands. But we know perfectly well, if we reflect or observe, that no such change is brought about in any such easy fash- ion.” The third stage in the evolution is what Dr. Cabot calls the “era of better things.” It is that stage which I wish here to describe. Its chief factor, first worked out by Dr. Ca- bot in the Out-patient Department of the Massachusetts General Hospital, is a Social Service Department. It is an effort to reach out beyond the hospital and carry the work of healing men and women to the limit of thoroughness. In a large proportion of cases, as Dr. Cabot says, “ a knowledge of the patient’s habits, of his economic, domes- tic and social conditions, is essential to any adequate understanding or competent man- agement of the case.” This work the physi- cians have neither the time nor the training