Because the profession as well as the laity has a fuzzy conception of what a chronic disease is, there exist only two special private hospitals for chronic diseases in the U. S.Montefiore Hospital for Chronic Diseases in New York City and Robert Breck Brigham Hospital in Boston. Last week the recently resigned medical director of Montefiore, Dr. Ernst Philip Boas and his chief assistant published a meaty, precise book on the subject.* Special hospitals exist for insane and tuberculous chronics, but no hospitals, except at New York and Boston, for the vast number...
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