Excerpt from The Difficulties of Prognosis in Insanity: Read Before the West London Medico-Chirurgical Society
Every practitioner of medicine is aware how difficult it often is to give a prognosis in ordinary cases of bodily disease. There is do point in our professional career which is so likely to endanger the opinion the public may have formed of our skill in diagnosis and treatment. It can therefore be easily understood that in all cases of mental disease this difficulty becomes much augmented, for the reasons that the patient will not assist us by describing his subjective symptoms, and will frequently complain that he is suffering from various bodily complaints of which there are no signs whatever. In forming an opinion about any given case of bodily disease, we are usually asked: "Will the patient recover?"
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